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Glassbooth - Quiz to help you choose best 2008 presidential candidate

It’s definitely time to start thinking about who you’d like to see in the Oval Office next term. There is so much buzz out there by now about why this candidate is better than this one, but, to be a responsible voter, you really have to take it down to the level of where each candidate stands on each major issue. And that’s not easy. My biggest problem is where to start.

I first heard about Glassbooth.org on CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast, but, of course, I don’t remember which episode. Anyhow, Glassbooth has pretty much solved the “Where do I start?” problem. They start you off by asking you to weigh a number of major issues, and then they send you on to take a quiz. Once you’re finished, you’re shown the candidates that you are closest to, by percentage. You can drill down to see how similar their stance is to yours on each issue. Glassbooth.org does an awesome job at providing quotes from the candidates complete with links to original articles and videos.

I’ve been putting off digging through the piles and piles of internets full of political draggle trying to find a good summary of which candidates have values similar to mine. If you’ve been stalling like me, I highly recommend Glassbooth.org. However, I encourage you to use Glassbooth as a starting point for your political discovery rather than an end point. The more informed we are about our political choices, the more likely we are to put a quality candidate in office, regardless of our partisan leanings.

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