Project Vote Smart (PVS) claims to be America's non-partisan, "premier research organization," yet after viewing their site briefly, I was rather disappointed.
The topics they offer such as "Current Candidates," "Interest Positions," and "Voting Records" initally sparked excitement on my part, but after actually viewing the pages, I became frustrated. Not only was information difficult to find,
but the pages were cluttered with data irrelevant to the search topic.
I went to the site in hopes of figuring out the prominent presidential candidates for the 2008 election, and PVS came back with a laundry list of politicians. They did not bookmark any of the candidates as being the "big competitors" but simply threw names around.
Even if the website's primary goal is to be objective, their main priority should be informing American voters. Right now, the ideas behind Project Vote Smart are fantastic, but the implementation of these ideas is anything but.
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