We've spent some time looking through the candidates' policy statements on technology, the media, education, transparency and infrastructure. We're primarily interested in seeing what issues they choose to highlight on their websites and in their speeches and press releases, as those are good indicators of their priorities. But if we only relied on those sources, we'd have to flunk every Republican running, as there's notably little on their official sites that touches on most of those topics.
Joshua Levy 12/10/2007 - 2:45pm
Chris Dodd is appearing at Google right now and his dutiful web team is streaming it live on his site.
Hopefully he'll address some of the tech policy issues we recently graded the Democrats and the Republicans on (will we have to adjust his grade?).
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We've spent some time looking through the candidates' policy statements on technology, the media, education, transparency and infrastructure. We're primarily interested in seeing what issues they choose to highlight on their websites and in their speeches and press releases, as those are good indicators of their priorities. Here's what we found.
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