Glass Booth
Glass Booth is a website designed to help you find the 2008 Presidential candidate with whom your views on substantive issues most closely align.
The site is interesting because it attempts to link voter preference to substantive issues. There is detailed information on how the candidates view several "major" issues as well as notes on their voting records. (One might quibble with whether the issues listed are sufficient. Is medical marijuana really a national issue in the current election?)
I tend to think that voting in American elections is mainly an expression of aesthetic preferences. There is often little substantive difference between the major political parties. To the extent that voters choose their candidate on substantive issues, this is a useful site. However, the logic of the site is still based on a liberal democratic model in which voters choose on the basis of self-interest rather than an attempt to ascertain the general will. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
The site is interesting because it attempts to link voter preference to substantive issues. There is detailed information on how the candidates view several "major" issues as well as notes on their voting records. (One might quibble with whether the issues listed are sufficient. Is medical marijuana really a national issue in the current election?)
I tend to think that voting in American elections is mainly an expression of aesthetic preferences. There is often little substantive difference between the major political parties. To the extent that voters choose their candidate on substantive issues, this is a useful site. However, the logic of the site is still based on a liberal democratic model in which voters choose on the basis of self-interest rather than an attempt to ascertain the general will. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
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