{"id":40,"date":"2004-10-17T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:43:21","slug":"candidates-and-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"CANDIDATES AND ISSUES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which candidate most closely matches your stand on the issues? Take the quiz on this excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/quizeng\/XPresMatch2004\/quiz_main.asp?Page=1&#038;Clear=Y\">website<\/a>.   I learned why I am not overjoyed with either Bush or Kerry.  I match Bush on only 30% of the issues and I match Kerry on only 30% of the issues.Who is my closest candidate match? Senator Joe Lieberman with a 60% issues match. It is a shame Lieberman isn&#8217;t running.  Since there was only one Republican Presidential candidate, this site could not match me up with more Republican options.<\/p>\n<p>George Bush on the issues is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/George_W__Bush.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry on the issues (along with his votes on some of the issues) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/John_Kerry.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also check out your Governor, Senators, and Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>More quizzes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/Quiz.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent site to see where candidates &#8220;say&#8221; they stand on the issues.  Of course, they don&#8217;t always do what they say.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--078f142ad6799bf77ddf068b689c306a--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which candidate most closely matches your stand on the issues? Take the quiz on this excellent website. I learned why I am not overjoyed with either Bush or Kerry. I match Bush on only 30% of the issues and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=40\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}