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This election, geeks are jamming the web with tools to inform
us about the candidates and their positions. Five websites in particular can
help even the most undecided voter make a choice. These are nonpartisan
resources, and user-friendly for teens and adults alike.
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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