{"id":1728,"date":"2007-11-07T03:29:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/07\/presidential-candidates-issues-matrix-cool-tool\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T03:29:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T11:29:08","slug":"presidential-candidates-issues-matrix-cool-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Candidates + Issues Matrix &#8211; very cool tool for becoming an educated voter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an educated voter is a <strong>responsibility<\/strong> of every citizen of this country &#8211; especially now when so much of what our Constitution stands for has been trampled by the criminals who are in power.<\/p>\n<p>This is the coolest tool I&#8217;ve seen yet for learning about each of the US Presidential candidates and their position on each of the key issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21116732\/\">Candidates + Issues Matrix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read a little about each candidate by scrolling your mouse over their picture, then rate how your own position on the key issues compares with that candidate&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>You can also compare how your ratings line up with others who have used the tool and watch how the ratings change over time.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool tool indeed!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/shawnna.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/gen0131.gif?w=1080\" alt='gen0131.gif' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an educated voter is a responsibility of every citizen of this country &#8211; especially now when so much of what our Constitution stands for has been trampled by the criminals who are in power. This is the coolest tool <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=1728\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}