The Election

I just watched Barack Obama's inspiring MLK speech. This caused me to remember an email that I received a few weeks ago about an interesting website. It is called Glassbooth. By visiting this website, you can see how your views align with the Presidential candidates. I think it is a neat tool, because after indicating which issues matter to you most, you are given a survey on the issues that are most important to you. Based on your answers, you can see which candidates align with your views. The part that I really like is that you can click around and see how different candidates align with you on particular issues and the evidence that is cited comes from actions (like Senate votes), quotes from debates, newspapers and other media.

I was not surprised that I align most closely to a candidate that will not be a major contender, Dennis Kucinich. But, I do love Barack Obama. I am reading his autobiography right now. In his book he brings up so many important and thought provoking issues.