Collaborative Journalism
Oh dear LazyWeb, let us come together to enlighten people. In light of Kottke's Voters Information Guide for the 2004 US Election, I am calling for submissions for a Kerry v Bush on the Issues guide.
I am tired of people asking me what Kerry's platform is about issues, and having to go back and forth to find it and source it. I am also tired of going to the BC04 site and trying to read through the site. I want to make a simple chart outlining what Kerry v Bush's views are, with accompanying sources and additional depth to counteract the often shallow rhetoric.
I also want examples of what Bush and Kerry has done in specific areas and what his surrogates have said. Both man's histories are important, but Bush's last 4 years are a template of what will happen in the next 4 years, so they are open game. I have started a rough outline, and have put a small part of that online at whoarethey.org. It isn't pretty yet, and it needs to be reworked, but any ideas are appreciated. I am hoping that this will not be overly partisan, that is why I am asking those to the right to help out to flesh out the President's views.
What I need from everyone for both Kerry and Bush is the following:
- A list of policy areas (ie National Security, Health Care, economy, etc), how to format the ideas into categories are themselves a hard task.
- Brief policy statements from the candidates, the problem is that both talk about issues from different lenses.
- What they have said in the campaign trail, and the source
- What their surrogates have said (less important and would probably be on an additional page, but it starts to build the picture)
- Anything else that would help out swing voters to decide
Any help would be appreciated, but I would like to stay away from "Bush is dumb" or "Kerry looks like he is French" because that is dumb. I would like to believe that there is more than that in today's political discourse. Please email me at plemeljr AT gmail DOT com or comment on this thread to help out.
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