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A question from my daughter?

My 28 yr old daughter is now very in to politics. She is interested in the upcoming election. She recently asked me where the best place is to get non-biased information on all of the candidates. It was the "unbiased" that threw me. Any suggestions??

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Unbiased? Impossible. However, understanding the biases between groups will help her understand both sides of an issue...

    Conservative - www.freerepublic.com

    Liberal - www.democratunderground.com

    That will be a good start....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I saw something about this on the news the other night. Glassbooth.org. (cut & paste from The New York Times below)

    If you pick your presidential candidate by issue, there’s a new tool in the online toolbox for you: Glassbooth.org.

    After you click a few times to indicate where you stand on matters from the Iraq war to abortion, the site will come up with the candidate who most closely matches your views. You can read a bit more about their positions and you can also see how closely the views of other candidates match yours.

    The site doesn’t allow for much nuance. And it doesn’t factor in whether that candidate is someone you really want in your living room for the next four years.

    But like many other such sites, it educates you along the way. That’s the hope, anyway, said Ian Manheimer, the director and founder of Glassbooth, which he described as an “innovative and cool way to empower people with information.”

    Why a new site? “We have a much richer data set than anything else out there,” said Mr. Manheimer, who founded the site with two friends, Robert Boyle and Alex Jacobs, all of whom are 24.

    He said Glassbooth — a term meant to suggest transparency in voting-booth decisions — allowed a user to delve more deeply into different aspects of each issue, with more bits of data.

  • 1 decade ago

    She can research the voting records of the candidates. That is very time consuming though because a lot of factors enter into why a Senator or Congressman voted one way or the other. Sometimes they vote against a certain bill because they don't like some of the issues attached to it besides the main issue.

  • mickbw
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I don't agree with sbay's political persuasions but he has given a couple very good sites to use as a basis.

    One additional location I would suggest is http://politifact.com/ which is a bipartisan site that researches the claims made by all the political campaigns.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not a hope in hell these days.

    Sorry mate but due to the changes to the freedom of information act. No one can access all the data needed to make an un-biased opinion.

    Though the fact they are hiding something should tell us something.

  • 1 decade ago

    that is tough. The Politico is good because they have pro-dem and pro-GOP writers. Real Clear Politics is solid for general election news. That is probably your best bet.

    http://www.dryflypolitics.com/

  • 1 decade ago

    Tell her to do her own research. I.E. why doesn't Hillary wants her university thesis released to the public. What radical ideas is she hidding? She wrote about a radical activist Alinsky.

    Why there are so many of Clinton's acquaintances dead?

  • 1 decade ago

    ronpaul2008.com

    If you want non-bias, then look at what they stand for. THere are lists of who supports what, look at those. Don't look at what reporters say about the candidates.

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