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Maybe now we will have a more intelligent voter population... Or we could just flip a coin and vote for Nixon.

flip a coin thats so 20ths century, im for drawing pickled eggs

yet more misunderstanding of Ron Paul's positions.

Like the same sex marriage. He doesn't appose it. He thinks it's a State matter and out of the realm of the Federal Government. (he may actually oppose it but it's just not something the Fed Gov should be involved in)

And "internet neutrality". He's against ALL Government regulations on the internet.

Under "immigration: legalization path" Paul has repeatedly said that people must follow the legal means to become citizens. So that is completely wrong.

Embryonic Stem Cells: He isn't against this, that I know of, but he IS against Federal funding for the research. It is supposed to be through private parties for this. Being against funding is NOT the same as being against the research.

yeah agreed...pages like that only focus on the sound byte type politics

These things are hard to do - it was nice effort but ultimately it's unfair to try and summarize a position via a check box. An obvious example of this is Ron Paul's abortion position. He's is opposed to abortion, however, he puts the constitution above all personal opinions. He does not believe it's the federal government's role to decide, and he opposes a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Likewise, he believes the supreme court usurped the power of the states in Roe and believes it should be overturned.

Trying to cram that in a single checkbox labeled "abortion" is quite a challenge.

And i'd rather "Univeral Healthcare" be called by it's proper name, "Socialism" but that's just personal preference :)

Interesting article. However I note some of the positions claimed aren't those by the politician.

The grid is rather lame, since it leaves out a critical third option for most issues: "believes the issue is not up to the federal government."

WARNING: This table is known to contain the truth about Ron Paul, which may lead to bleeding eyes and whining RP supporters who claim "they got it wrong." I find that incredibly interesting, as the source is cited as the official website of your leader of choice.

You know, I never really knew anything about Ron Paul except that everybody on digg was freaking out about him, which was extremely annoying. But now that I see what he's about, I'm actually pretty impressed.

You know, it's kinda depressing to be like "Ooooh, I like candidate X" and then realize that he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell at being elected. *sigh* 'Cause on the flip side, you realize that you have issues with all the candidates who are electable.

I can understand someone being opposed to gay marriage for moral reasons, but actually supporting a Constitutional ban of it is nothing short of advocating institutionalized bigotry. Also, what sane person wouldn't support a background check for gun ownership?

Sad how the voter population now decides on a candidate's positions by a simple "V" or "X" next to it. READ?! Hell no just give me a check or X next to the position!

lol ron paul has three green marks

It's not a very good chart as it over-simplifies each candidates position. While I haven't heard all of their positions on each issue, I do know that Ron Paul is against the Federal government being involved in abortion and many of the other issues that have a checkmark of 'opposed' to these. I believe personally he is against abortion, but as President, he would attempt to persuade Congress and the Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade so that it is a State issue, which the Constitution says it should be.

It's interesting that the chart has Obama and Hillary supporting net neutrality.

Living in Utah means my vote means nothing. Whoever the Republican is will undoubtedly win our electoral votes.

Damn *****.

It would be useful if a frame popped up listing the candidate and position when you highlight a box for those of us without gigantic monitors.

I'm finding it hard to like any of them really.

Someone ought to make a quick quiz with the same multiple choice options on the same issues, so people can see what candidate they technically match up to. I'll bet very few diggers are going to end up with Ron Paul
/likes Ron Paul, but no backround check for guns? Jesus

There's something wrong with the site's CSS so when you print the chart it loses a lot of the formatting and becomes hard to read.

most of these arent yes or no answers. they have very complex answers, and anyone that goes by this is a fool.

Gravel FTW!

Nice effort, but most of these issues aren't black and white, and can't be summarized by a chart such as this.

I was going to digg this because I think putting candidates positions in a more accessible way is important. Unfortunately, not only is this slightly misleading on certain candidate positions, but I think we are doing a disservice to ourselves by overly simplifying the issues at hand. If everything could be simplified to a yes/no/maybe answer, what would the point of presidential debates be? Just pass around the checkbox card, and distribute to the American people. Occasionally issue new ones when Romney changes his position on abortion/gay rights, and when Hilary decides being pro-war isn't fashionable anymore.

Democracy is the rule of masses. Masses don't really have time or don't bother with complex issues. This means when it comes to the philosophy of law or economics, they are idiots.

Masses think they can crate jobs, end hunger, create peace and prosperity by just wishing for it, or rather make a law about it.

They think by just passing a law people can earn some dollar figure on the minimum.

They think by just passing a law everybody would be at a job they would like, and work as much as they would like, and earn as much as they would like.

So they vote for people who actually promise these things.

So simplified slogans do the job.

That is why Ron Paul doesn't have a chance. Not In a democracy.

Do you think you would know the names of the people called as the founding fathers if there was a democracy back then?

They would be called wackos nothing else.

Look at Romney's stance on abortion...
The other day I had someone tell me that they supported Romney because "he seemed solid and sure of his stances."
I about bitch slapped them.

Look at the real patriots here: Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, and Dennis Kucinich. The ONLY presidential candidates who voted against the Patriot Act.

Buried as INACCURATE because obviously this chart can't distinguish a politicians stance on state's rights.

"I don't think the federal government should be deciding who gets married, even if they are the same sex. It should be up to the states to decide that."

That doesn't me someone is against same sex marriage.

The chart is a good idea, but flawed an inaccurate.

Hmmm... I wonder why I haven't seen any discussion about Kucinich on here? He seems the most sensible of them all!

What really shocked me was that only Paul, Gravel, and Kucinich oppose the Patriot Act.... that ***** me off.

Why do lefties like Ron Paul so much? Anti-abortion and pro-wall doesn't seem very 'left' to me.

Buried as inaccurate. The green checkmarks signify a favorable position as opposed to the red "X". The reality is that there are nuances to all positions that can't be boiled down to yes or no answers.

Nobody expects this to be a person's voting card. More information is never bad. If you think something is interesting or surprising or disingenuous in the list, go look it up.

Amazing chart, thank you!

If I go purely by the issues it looks like Joe biden is my man (except for his patriot act stance).

I like Ron Paul but his stance on no government interaction on some issues worries me. The only people I trust less than the government is big business. Sure the open market will determine some things and self regulate but things like oil drilling in protected lands aren't affected by that.

Fair Tax/IRS isn't a Top 25 issue? How about internet gambling? That may not be Top 25, but you can bet your ass it's important to a lot of the people visiting this internet web site.

Rofl this chart has Clinton as opposing her OWN socialized healthcare plan. Buried as inaccurate.

So is it the left, being afraid, or the right, being afraid, and digging down all the Ron Paul supporters calling ***** on this chart?

I wouldn't expect a grid to suffice as anything more than a very, very, very basic guide to what the candidates stand for. Some checks and exes are more accurate than others, but by looking further into it I learn who stands for or opposes what, according to who. I'm not saying it dead-on accurate or that it's not. I'm just saying it makes me want to know more.

There about 5 or 6 opinions a candidate should have before he is considered by me as acceptable. Ron Paul has only one of those things.. (you guessed it)

Someone please explain his stance on gun issues. I'm skeptical

Buried as inaccurate.

altho i do want ron paul to win the republican ticket, kucinich for the ***** win.

Obama is not exactly against the death penalty, despite what the chart says.

"Obama, who has expressed reservations about capital punishment but does not oppose it, said he would support the death penalty for Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19862711/