COMPARISON-SHOPPING FOR PRESIDENT

Since TV commercials are always trying to push a political candidate the same way they seek to sell a new car, maybe we should think of ourselves as shoppers. That's what PriceGrabber.com, an Internet comparison-shopping tool, and the University of Southern California's Center for E-Government have done. The result is a website where you and I can compare and contrast national and statewide candidates' backgrounds, fund-raising totals, and positions on a wide variety of issues.

Approximately 100 candidates for public office are in the database, which we can search by state, gender, age, office, marital status and so on. Click here to see the presidential comparison-shopper tool.

I'd like to thank you for your posting. There has been some misleading (!!!surprise!!!) information coming from the Pete Coors camp that made him seem a bit more moderate than he is. After checking out PriceGrabber, reading each candidates official statements, I now feel that his views are much further right than I had previously been led to believe. Thanks for the useful tool. Man, if we could only get that for local elections.