www.Glassbooth.org

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/issues-theyve-got-issues/

They’ve Got Issues

By Katharine Q. Seelye

If you pick your presidential candidate by issue, there’s a new tool in the online toolbox for you: www.Glassbooth.org.

After you click a few times to indicate where you stand on matters from the Iraq war to abortion, the site will come up with the candidate who most closely matches your views. You can read a bit more about their positions and you can also see how closely the views of other candidates match yours.

The site doesn’t allow for much nuance. And it doesn’t factor in whether that candidate is someone you really want in your living room for the next four years.

But like many other such sites, it educates you along the way. That’s the hope, anyway, said Ian Manheimer, the director and founder of Glassbooth, which he described as an “innovative and cool way to empower people with information.”

Why a new site? “We have a much richer data set than anything else out there,” said Mr. Manheimer, who founded the site with two friends, Robert Boyle and Alex Jacobs, all of whom are 24.

He said Glassbooth — a term meant to suggest transparency in voting-booth decisions — allowed a user to delve more deeply into different aspects of each issue, with more bits of data.

This looks valuable.

K & R

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

:D I kid!

Edwards has a real chance to be elected.

Doug D.

The rest of the Democrats 75-78%

Nobody less than 54%.

I question the legitimacy of the calculation.

The issue discussions are more interesting.

The humans:
Kucinich - 97%
Gravel - 94%
Edwards - 82%
Dodd - 80%
Clinton - 80%
Richardson - 79%
Obama - 78%
Biden - 70%

The freaks:
Paul - 45%
Romney - 33%
McCain - 30%
Giuliani - 29%
Thompson - 29%
Huckabee - 26%
Hunter - 23%
Tancredo - 22%

Dennis Kucinich
99% similarity

Mike Gravel
96% similarity

Chris Dodd
81% similarity

The rest of the Dems were between 73% to 78%

Dennis Kucinich 81%
Christopher Dodd 78%
John Edwards 78%