Where Does Your Compass Lead You

Posted on January 3, 2008
Filed Under Information, News, Politics |

The first batch of Caucuses starts today and if you don’t know which candidate you like yet I have a tool for you. You could chose your candidate based on who has the best hair or who doesn’t fall into a minority group that you don’t like. You could chose the candidate with the best looking wife (or husband). You could chose the candidate that was on your favorite TV show. You could chose the candidate that your favorite TV show host told you to choose. You could ask the people at your church or your child’s school. Or you could take the only test at Electoral Compass USA and find out which candidate agrees with you on issues that you think matter.

Electoral Compass 2008 will ask you three dozen questions about topics ranging from crime and gun control to the environment and health care. After the questions you get a map like the one to the left that shows you which candidates you are near. Don’t care about gun control, than remove gun control from the list on the right and it will put you in a two dimensional space with out considering gun control. Do you care about the environment and health care and nothing else? You can filter by that as well. If you have a special reason for not liking a candidate you can remove them by party or individually.

Hover your mouse over a candidate and you can compare how they answered the questions to how you answer them. Perhaps you agree 2% with Ron Paul about Health Care and 95% with him about Terrorism. Find out which candidate really agrees with your values.

Electoral Compass USA: http://www.electoralcompass.com/language/en

I wish to give special thanks to the Wall Street Journal for linking to this article on their online edition.
WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119939661834265699.html

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3 Responses to “Where Does Your Compass Lead You”

NerdJack linked to by Wall Street Journal! : Jared R. Byer - Journal on January 4th, 2008 5:02 pm

[...] little thingscan seem big to us at times. Yesterday on NerdJack I wrote a piece about the Electoral Compass. I found out today that the Wall Street Journal Online [...]
Strumpet on January 4th, 2008 6:18 pm

This is awesome news and a very informative article.
jaredrbyer on January 4th, 2008 10:19 pm

Thanks Strumpet.