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So.  Barack.  Hillary.  I remain undecided.  I’ve been doing a bit of campaign research, trying to look at records and comparative positions, and am getting some leanings one way or another — but it’s hard to avoid the partisan rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Anyone have some suggestions for a good site or two that will compare the two of them without their own imposingly large axe to grind?<\/p>\n

And anyone have something substantive to throw out there to help influence me?<\/p>\n

Note that whomever I choose, I will likely be voting for one or the other of them in November, since I prefer either to any of the GOP likelies.  So I’d just as soon not be presented with opinions that one or the other is Satan Incarnate (at least not without supporting evidence).<\/p>\n

So … thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So.  Barack.  Hillary.  I remain undecided.  I’ve been doing a bit of campaign research, trying to look at records and comparative positions, and am getting some leanings one way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6317,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/you_are_what_yo.html","url_meta":{"origin":11792,"position":0},"title":"You are what you watch","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Sep-04 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"A new study by Initiative Media Worldwide has broken out TV shows by political affiliation (the better to target audiences with certain campaign ads, no doubt). 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