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...would be this:
(a) Take a poll among a large number of American voters, say 2,000 or so, from a real cross section of racial, geographic and rural/urban lines, that represent the overall population fairly well. All of the questions concern what to do about current issues such as how to end the Iraq occupation, how to speed up Katrina recovery, whether they want single payer health care or the status quo or some other solution, immigration, welfare, corporate welfare -- the whole gamut of issues that are of concern right now and are in the news. Show the alternative approaches for each issue as a bar chart, representing the percentage who chose each alternative for each question (I guess you would have 3 or 4 alternatives for each question -- leaving all of that to the professional pollsters to sort out).
(b) Now delve into the positions of each of the candidates, and adjust appropriately based on their actual votes on such issues in the past, and chart their positions on each of the alternatives presented in the above poll. This of course has to be done as fairly and objectively as possible, so the criteria should be spelled out and make sense.
(c) Superimpose the charts to see which candidate comes out on top -- i.e. show which candidate people would support, if they were basing their support only on issues, not on personalities or preconceptions about things like who is "electable".
Which candidates would come out looking best on the issues, based on the above? My guess is Edwards and Kucinich. But I could be wrong...
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