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Sorting out the issues before Election Day

Posted by: Dwayne Hastings on October 7, 2008   Featured Article •

Before you step into the voting booth on Election Day, it is critically important that you and every voter get a good grasp of not only what the candidates are saying, but what they aren’t saying.

To help you in this regard and to cut through the clutter of campaign rhetoric, the iVoteValues.com team develops a nonpartisan Party Platform Comparison Guide. This resource, which we have published every presidential election year since 1992, is not a collection of quotes or voting records of the candidates. The next issue of this publication will be released in the summer of 2012.

It is built from sections of the party platforms that have been carefully excerpted. The resource contains no analysis or commentary. While the guide does not cover every issue, it does include quotes from the two party’s postion statements on a host of topics, from civil rights, human trafficking, illegal immigration, judicial appointments and stem cell research, among others.

Given that it is a balanced, nonpartisan resource, we believe it is well within the guidelines set forth under the IRS tax code for distribution within 501(C)(3) organizations, which includes most churches.

While the Party Platform Comparison Guide will give voters a good idea of where the two parties stand on a wide variety of subject areas, concerned voters should read the the actual platforms for themselves. Links to the platforms are available here. Unfortunately, time and space considerations do not allow us to reference the myriad of other political parties that are contending for the White House in this publication.

The Party Platform Comparison Guide is available in digital format and a limited number of the guides can be purchased, in 25-count bundles, from the ERLC by calling (800) 475-9127 or at the ERLC’s online marketplace, familybookstore.net.

To the best of our knowledge there is no resource like this available. Again, it is not a traditonal “voter’s guide,” as you may have seen in the past from other organizations. This resource was developed to give voters a straight-up, above-board glimpse at what the two major parties say on some very important issues. It’s worth a look!

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