Reply #14: here's a sample questionnaire for Congress [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

http://www.vote-smart.org/pdf/npat2006/2006_congressional_NPAT.pdf

what's disturbing any way anyone sees this issue is that we are sending voters to the polls with an incredible lack of knowledge about the candidates on the ballot ... a single questionnaire from one good organization really isn't the main issue; we cannot possibly hope to solve the country's problems when well-financed, powerful interest groups are able to distort and obscure what we're really voting for by putting phony "baby kissing" ads on TV ... again, without an informed electorate, what is the point of democracy ...

democracy becomes nothing but a pretense of shared power when citizens go to the voting booth with "marketing slogans and hype" and without real information ... we need to hold our elected officials, candidates, and yes, voters too, responsible for this mess ...