Expert Voter (www.expertvoter.org): Provides a handy-dandy one page matrix of clips with the candidates sharing views on Iraq, immigration, energy, nuclear proliferation, healthcare, education, social security, taxes, and campaign reform.
Fact Check (www.factcheck.org): Monitors the truth of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
Match-O-Matic (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/page?id=3623346): Developed by ABC and USA Today, this interactive site quizzes you on your views to see how you match up on the hot issues with the candidates.
Ask Your Lawmaker (http://www.askyourlawmaker.com/): Users submit questions and vote on them, and then journalists track down lawmakers in Congress and on the campaign trail to get those questions answered.
Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/): Volunteer citizens provide biographical information, voting records, issue positions, interest group ratings, public statements, and campaign finance information so you can find out who your candidates are really representing.
With a wealth of information a point and click away, and computers in homes, offices, and in almost every public library, American voters have more power than ever before.
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Mitali Perkins (mitaliperkins.com)
is the author of two novels for teens about a candidate’s daughter, First
Daughter: Extreme American Makeover and First Daughter: White House
Rules (Dutton). Her main character, Sameera Righton, described by Publishers
Weekly as “an intelligent, witty
and prepossessed heroine,” is keeping track of the hype around
the REAL First Kid wannabes at www.sparrowblog.com.
To learn more about the books, visit firstdaughterbooks.com.
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