A couple of good sites in case you didn't know about them yet

[LittleClarkie]

http://www.vote-smart.org/

A good place to look at the candidate's votes and approval ratings of several interest groups

Hillary's page
http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=55463

Obama's page
http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=9490



http://www.opensecrets.org/

A good place to find out who's donating and how much.

Hillary's pages

General
http://www.opensecrets.org/navasp/whosgetting_response.asp

Presidential campaign

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?ID=N00000019&Cycle=2008


Obama's pages

General

http://www.opensecrets.org/navasp/whosgetting_response.asp

Presidential campaign

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp?ID=N00009638&Cycle=2008

[Marie26]

1. Nice sites

But this depressed me:

"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart Vote Smart staff.

Urge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to fill out the Political Courage Test"

http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=55463


"Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart Vote Smart staff.

Urge Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. to fill out the Political Courage Test"

http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=9490

[LittleClarkie]

2. I have yet to find an official that HAS submitted to that test

Check your local officials and see if any of them have either.

It seems like nobody wants to take that test.

[Marie26]

3. One of my Senators did

Richard Burr took it, Elizabeth Dole, of course, did not.

[LittleClarkie]

4. I just checked. Neither my Governor, nor Russ Feingold, nor Herb Kohl

and none of my local officials.

[MH1]

5. I've been a vote-smart user for years, and rarely if ever do national politicians respond to that.

It is depressing, I'll agree with you, but it's not a differentiator at the national level.

[Marie26]

6. Gravel did.

I guess he's my candidate. :P