2008 US presidential race

Overview

This page is for information about the race (i.e. the candidates and their stands on various issues) for the upcoming 2008 US presidential election, which is bound to be a watershed event whichever way it goes.

Related Pages

This page is written from a standpoint of assuming that the voting process will proceed properly and democratically; for details and concerns about the actual voting, see 2008 US presidential election.

Candidates

Listing of people considered either candidates or possible candidates:

Barack Obama (D)
Chris Dodd (D)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
Hillary Clinton (D): hated by Republicans, despite being rather like them in some ways; David Brin says "No senators!"
John Edwards: has formally announced candidacy
John McCain launched presidential campaign on 2006-04-25
Mike Huckabee (R)
Mitt Romney (R)
Ron Paul (R) - former Libertarian, heavily supportive of the US Constitution
Rudy Giuliani (R)

Links

Reference

SourceWatch
Wikipedia: United States presidential election
Campaigns Wikia: United States presidential election
table of issues x positions
Pick Your Candidate: lets you pick your position on about 20 issues, then shows you a list of candidates ranked by how closely their stated views agree with yours
- statistics from the above survey

Filed Links

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Articles

2007-07-27 What Are the Democratic Candidates Really Saying about Iraq? by Ira Chernus: how to decipher the doublespeak (related: US invasion of Iraq)

News

2007-10-14 Groups on left, right ask candidates to reject Bush's wider powers: "President Bush's drive to expand executive power over surveillance, detention, interrogation and the meaning of new laws has drawn largely ineffectual protests from Congress. But a group of liberals and a handful of prominent conservatives are pressing would-be successors to renounce those powers before they take office."
2007-06-05 GOP Candidates Weigh in on Scooter Libby Pardon (Related: 2007-07-02 Libby bail-out)

Humor

2007-07-14 I Drew This looks at the 4 main GOP candidates

Miscellaneous

Goldwater-Miller '08: the granddaughter and daughter of Barry Goldwater and Bill Miller make the point that George W. Bush's Republican Party is not truly conservative