Project Vote Smart: VoteEasy™ Revisited (2012 Presidential Election)

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Rather than grave-dig something up from 2010 I decided that we could all use a fresh start here. Personally, I would have preferred if they had included the Constitution Party's candidate, Virgil Goode, and Socialist Party USA candidate Stewart Alexander to diversify the field a bit more (not to mention a few questions pertinent to such candidates). Still, I figured nobody else had posted this yet and maybe some folks would be interested in giving it a go.

For me the results were:

96% - Jill Stein
69% - Barack Obama
49% - Gary Johnson
46% - Buddy Roemer
36% - Ron Paul
23% - Mitt Romney
23% - Rick Santorum
21% - Newt Gingrich

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Off the top of my head I believe there is a political "courage" test submitted to candidates for public office asking them to detail what their positions are on a large number of issues - many of which are controversial - and at times quite specific. The pitch is it gives voters an opportunity to see where a person stands on the issues. For one reason or another most candidates choose not to fill it out, so they get branded as lacking courage. It just happens that out of the bunch, Stein is the only one who set aside time to fill it out this time around.

Incidentally, to some extent I am inclined to agree with TJ about the questions.