NPR Compares the 4 Candidates for President

In my opinion, they did a pretty good job of comparing the 4 main candidates for president. The author doesn't seemed biased in any direction, but it will be interesting to hear your opinions. I posted it to my Facebook page.

The article was in a tweet from OurRevolution. The tweet was upsetting because the graphic they included cut out Jill Stein. So I linked to it planning to be pissed. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised.

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http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/496926243/from-the-economy-to-race-see-whe...

With that in mind, we set out to create a cheat sheet on where each candidate stands on the issues voters care about most. The issues we chose to highlight come from the top 10 issues voters said were "very important" to their vote, according to a 2016 poll from the Pew Research Center.

Those issues are, in order: The economy, terrorism, foreign policy, health care, gun policy, immigration, social security, education, Supreme Court appointments and the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities.

We've tracked where the major candidates — Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein — fall on each issue. We chose these four candidates because they are on the ballot in most states.

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Lily O Lady's picture

issues. I guess it's complicated. /s

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

mhagle's picture

In the foreign policy section it lists . . . "Supports the Paris Climate Accord." HRC says yes and the rest say no. However, there is a footnote that Jill Stein says it is not enough to curb climate change.

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

Lily O Lady's picture

like spitting on a forest fire, which we'll have many more of due to climate change. Climate change isn't a subset of foreign policy. Foreign policy is a subset of climate change.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

mhagle's picture

. . . should be a GIANT issue in the article.

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

Big Al's picture

skewed toward the establishment narratives and lies, or omit key information, that seriously considering this list serves to perpetuate the lies.

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Lily O Lady's picture

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

mhagle's picture

. . . however, I view it as a good thing for the general public to be able to see all 4 positions on those skewed topics. It isn't going to reveal anything new to those who participate in conversations here. But my Facebook friends, most of whom I love dearly but do not give a shit about climate change, etc. . . . it could be an open door to vote 3rd party.

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

riverlover's picture

candidates, so laying out a block of yes/no to items would be good. It's getting late, but there may be some panic.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

gulfgal98's picture

The questions seem to be based upon the establishment narrative which has been sold to the public via the corrupt media. No one wants to talk about climate change and yet it is the greatest single threat to mankind. I also found that some of the answers attributed to Clinton are not what most of us here think she really believes, especially based upon the Wikileaks emails thus far released. If anyone really believes that she is not going after Social Security, they are kidding themselves.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

WaveyDavey's picture

Stein : Johnson : Trump : Public Hillary : Private Hillary

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The people, united, will never be defeated.

ZimInSeattle's picture

Mother nature will do whatever she wants. All other issues will go nowhere until 1B is taken care of.

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020

isn't dealt with, 1B, and all the others won't matter.

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

GreatLakeSailor's picture

...that if 1B is not fixed, 1A will not be meaningfully addressed.

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Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.

we be chucked.
About what I already thought. Depressing, to say the least.

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

earthling1's picture

will tell us what we need know. If the moderator does not ask one question on climate change, its all a fraud. Including the moderator.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Zenza's picture

And I didn't see mention of climate change. High on the list were immigration and Supreme Court... the latter of which could cost HER some votes amongst her R WING voters...remember this is a Fox news debate with Chris Wallace asking the questions. It will be a very thin rope HH is walking indeed. Of course not really since she no longer concerns herself with her left flank. Trump will doubtless be Trump.

¡Typos!

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candidate has a medical emergency on camera. I have no expectation that we will see any substantive revelations, or honesty, emerging from either. Both are shit candidates.

We're all going to lose regardless.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

all that did was piss me off. Fucking clinton has had different positions on at least 75% of these questions or whatever they are.

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