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Web site helps you pick your candidate
Published: January 4, 2008
For all the coverage that news organizations have lavished on the presidential primaries, many voters still find it hard to determine which candidates best match their political beliefs. If you’re still wondering where to throw your support, you might want to visit a new site called Glassbooth.
Like several similar sites, Glassbooth asks you where you stand on a number of issues, using a five-point scale that runs from strongly support to strongly oppose rather than a simple yes-or-no. Where Glassbooth stands out is that also asks about the relative importance you place on various topics before matching your opinions with those expressed by candidates on the campaign trail.
Thus, if you tell the system that you care more about gun control and abortion than tariffs and the war in Iraq, the system won’t pair you with a candidate who agrees with you on a host of issues you don’t care about while disagreeing on those that move you.
Is the system perfect? God, no. It only asks you how much you care about 14 different issues and then asks you only 17 questions about your beliefs. That’s a pretty simple way to view the proper conduct of the entire U.S. government.
That said, Glassbooth is better than anything I’ve seen before it and definitely worth a look, particularly if you happen to live in Iowa or New Hampshire.
