I hope that the 'or principle supporter' clause is eliminated from 2.5
IMO, any candidate that will not fully answer direct questions that are designed to clarify the candidates position on all of the 'platform issue' questions can not be considered qualified as a 'New American Agenda' candidate.
As for the 'questions' themselves... in addition to the problem of writing the questions with multiple questions allowed and probably needed for any one issue (position/policy/agenda item), it would be interesting to weight each issue against the others to allow a ranking of candidates against the overall platform. Not to forget the fun of a poll among Unity08 members to 'vote for which positions are most important to you' to get the weightings to be used :)
I hope that the 'or principle supporter' clause is eliminated from 2.5
IMO, any candidate that will not fully answer direct questions that are designed to clarify the candidates position on all of the 'platform issue' questions can not be considered qualified as a 'New American Agenda' candidate.
As for the 'questions' themselves... in addition to the problem of writing the questions with multiple questions allowed and probably needed for any one issue (position/policy/agenda item), it would be interesting to weight each issue against the others to allow a ranking of candidates against the overall platform. Not to forget the fun of a poll among Unity08 members to 'vote for which positions are most important to you' to get the weightings to be used :)
More anon,
tom151
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Policy 1st, candidate 2nd
What is a principal supporter, and how are they selected?