- Education Issues - Should illegal immigrants who graduate from West Virginia high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities?
- Gun Issues - Do you support requiring background checks on all firearms sales at gun shows, including sales by unlicensed dealers?
- Health Issues - Do you support requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance?
- Social Issues - Do you support same-sex marriage?
9 September 2011
Written by Carly Griffin
GREAT DIVIDE RANCH, MT., September 9, 2011 - Project Vote Smart released the 2011 Political Courage Test results today for Nevada's special election showing seventy-five percent (75%) of congressional candidates running for the state's 2nd Congressional District seat were unwilling to answer even the most basic issue-related questions addressed inside the Test.
Among candidates Mark Amodei, Timothy Fasano, Helmuth Lehmann, and Kate Marshall, and following repetitious requests by mail, fax, and e-mail including contacts from key leaders of their own parties, Lehmann was the only candidate to submit answers to the Test.
For two decades, the Political Courage Test has asked all candidates one central question: "Are you willing to tell citizens your positions on the issues you will most likely face if elected?" Candidates who reply "yes" to that question are presented with several issue categories in which they are asked to indicate support for given principles, or reply using their own language entirely.
Nevada candidates' unwillingness to provide voters with their issue positions is part of a growing national trend among candidates, as Test response rates have steadily fallen from a high of seventy-two percent (72%) in 1996, to an all-time low of thirty-eight percent (38%) in 2010. Project Vote Smart has found that party leaders and consultants from both major parties advise candidates not to respond to the Test for two primary reasons: it will limit the candidates' ability to control their campaign messages and it will expose them to opposition research.
"When candidates decide to hide behind talking points and manipulative campaign tactics, they are contributing to a deliberate dumbing down of the American electorate," said Richard Kimball, Project Vote Smart President. "When you keep your opponent in the dark, you keep the voter there as well."
The Political Courage Test is a collaborative effort between the Project and over 200 political scientists, journalists, and leaders from across the political spectrum, speaking to the Test's unmatched neutrality and objectivity. Issue areas addressed in the Test are researched using polling data, the majority, minority and third party platforms, State of the Union and Response speeches, State of the State and Response speeches, and legislative agendas.
Sample questions on the 2011 Test include:
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