Can't make up your mind about a Presidential candidate? Not sure about your candidate's position on a particular issue? Need some quick opposition research? Check out this handy chart of the issue positions of 18 Presidential candidates. You may be surprised.
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ooh, we should do something like this for Georgia's US Senate candidates.
nice find Paula.
Sweet. Great information design.
It would be cool to extend the graph slightly. All those similar checkmarks and x's make hard to distinguish positions in parties.
It would be nice to have a gauge for the strength of a position.
Take abortion for example - are we talking narrowly in the case of rape or incest, first trimester only, late term bans, parental notification, support to Planned Parenthood and on and on.
I guess the best gauge for the moment would be the appropriate interest group (NARAL, campaign for universal health care, etc.)
Even though Tufte says "Clutter is a failure of design", I think you've got a point odinseye2k. It is pretty striking how similar the Ds and Rs are on most issues. In a way, it looks very much like SSDD.