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Happy Halloween From Project Vote Smart
Halloween has a special place in my heart, it's a day where we get to make up a persona or character, dress the part, and parade ourselves around to try to get some free treats and be generally jocular with others doing the same thing. Having followed, very closely, the many races politicians are in, today I feel we can all better appreciate what it is they do. After all, what is a campaign if not Halloween everyday? Candidates dress themselves up as a persona or character, and parade around the district, state, or country looking for treats, be it money or votes. We here at Project Vote Smart, however, asked something of the candidates that many of them didn't want to give. We asked "are you willing to tell citizens your positions on the issues you are most likely to face on their behalf?". It's the core question of Vote Smart's Political Courage Test. I was there when the Political Courage Test was born, as a member of a dedicated team developing it for the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative candidates. I made some of the calls to the first candidates that received the Test. And for those of us involved in its development, this Halloween marks an important anniversary. It marks the first time we asked the candidates for a peek under their mask. On this day in 2007, the first Political Courage Tests were due. Some may argue that the Tests were due from the most important ...
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