Let Us Decide On Who You Vote For

At first I was totally outraged when I read about GlassBooth. That in itself isn’t much I realize, I get outrage over a bunch of things, some not even that significant and some, once I have had a bit of time to reflect and have actually looked at the site or read the article I am outraged by I tend to reconsider a bit. Of course this model of thinking held true for GlassBooth as well.

Basically GlassBooth comes off as a site for the lazy voter. You are given a “quiz” in which you are given 20 points to distribute among 14 different political hot buttons. Then you are asked to rank how important each of these topics are to you on aa scale of 1-5 with targeted questions. After you have gone through that (it takes about 5 minutes or so) the site tells you the top three candidates who share your views ranked by percentage and has a drop down menu of all the other candidates to see how you compare with their views.

Seems like the perfect site for uninformed voters to get superficial information from which they can base their decisions on who to vote for instead of actually doing any research on what the candidates actually stand for. At least on paper (or on a screen) it does, and for the super lazy it does as well, what is nice though is that it tells you on what issues you have similar views on as the candidates and where you can learn more. They provide you with a ton of information on all the candidates (sans Stephen Colbert) and let you see how your ideas stack up with theirs. They even provide you information on how your views are similar or different.

Issues even have summarized, easy to navigate over views. This actually seems like a great site to get more information on candidates from. Reading between the lines it does have some slight leftward leaning undertones, but as a whole it is pretty neutral providing you with “unbiased” and transparent information on each of the candidates.

Apparently the candidate with views most similar to mine is Kucinich with Hillary in 3rd, oddly all the Republicans had dissimilar tastes to my own. Shocking, I know.