Select2008.com and the 2008 Democratic and Republican Primaries
Select2008.com has now been in public beta for the last two months. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our users for their useful and insightful feedbacks.
Select2008.com helps users select their top candidate for the 2008 Primaries and/or the Presidential election by answering a personalized sequence of questions on policy and programs. Select2008.com is now geared towards the Democratic and Republican primaries, ahead of the primary seasons and February 5 “Super Tuesday”.
We have added a workflow to the questionnaire to make it easier for users to change candidates, select specific issues to vote on or to review their results. Our analysis has worked out the policy and program differences between the candidates to save users valuable time and effort.
We use advanced analytics to ask the most relevant and selective questions to zero in on your top candidate, from a database of over 1,500 questions on policy and programs.
The service now pre-selects for Democratic and Republican voters the major candidates in each field, Clinton, Edwards, and Obama for the Democratic primaries and Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Paul, Romney, and Thompson for the Republican primaries. This segmentation also helps selecting the most selective questions in the key topics for each party, such as the economy and taxes for the Republicans and healthcare and the war in
The What’s Hot section enables users to continuously screen for the most disputed questions across the entire field of presidential contestants. Select2008 now also offers candidate profile pages that let users analyze, compare, and explore candidates’ positions on all questions in our database.
Select2008’s database of 1,500 questions covers the whole spectrum of policy and programmatic issues for the 2008 presidential elections, including the war in Iraq, the economy – globalization, business regulation, home ownership, and predatory lending, innovation and public funding for research –, healthcare plans, taxes, government reform, war on terrorism, homeland security – Guantanamo Bay prison, enhanced interrogation techniques, and preparedness –, education – student loan reforms, access to college education, and support for education vouchers –, energy and environment plans – alternative energy sources, global warming, and energy independence.
Results not only tell users who their favorite candidates are, but also how much in agreement they are with them issue by issue. Users can then register to save their results and compare their position and results with their friends.
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