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Preferring to protect themselves from opposition research, only 20% of the 1282 candidates for Congress were willing <span style="font-size: 12.8012809753418px; line-height: 1.5;">to provide voters or media with direct answers to the issue questions on Vote Smart’s National Political Courage Test.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8012809753418px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.2019214630127px;">Today, Vote Smart announces the unveiling of its powerful new </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8012809753418px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.2019214630127px;">tools that provide every citizen interactive, instant access to the facts on any politician, on any issue, at any </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8012809753418px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.2019214630127px;">time.</span>
Three prominent political research experts, <span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8012809753418px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.2019214630127px;">Brooks Jackson, Ted McConnell, and Sheila Krumholz,</span> have joined the board of Vote Smart (VoteSmart.org), the leading non-partisan national research organization focused on politicians and elections.
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Read our November Common Ground E-Newsletter here... <br>
It's time for every thinking American to saddle up and fight for that most precious component in our struggle to self govern, our right to know.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> It was unclear what might be done to ensure that citizens had at least one independent source to easily acquire accurate information, but what we eventually decided upon remains the heart of Project Vote Smart today. </p> <p> </p>