Presidential Candidate Platforms

Citation code examples

See Ben Carson's page for an example of citation formatting.

A candidate's website should be cited using candidate initials followed by a "W". For example, Ben Carson's campaign website should be cited as (BCW), Donald Trump's website should be cited as (DTW), etc.

Information from the debates should be cited as the first letter of the party debating (Republican or Democrat, so R or D), followed by a D for debate, followed by the debate number (if it was the first debate, a 1, the second debate, a 2, etc) For example, if I wanted to cite the Republican's third debate, I would cite it as (RD3).

Any other websites unique and specific to information about your candidate, feel free to make up an acronym. Whatever acronym you use, be sure to list at the bottom of the wiki page accompanied by the link to said information.

To Do Now

Each candidate page should begin with a brief biography, their picture, a link to their campaign website, and then a summary of their stances on the following issues:

1. Tax Reform
2. Jobs and Business Policy
3. Health Policy
4. Drug Policy
5. Middle East
6. Trade
7. Immigration
8. Environmental

Make sure to get info from reliable source (their website, news, etc) and link that section of the wiki to the website (visibly cite your sources). If their stance on an issue can't be found on their website, check what they say in debate transcripts, etc. The objective here is to get a large quantity of information about the candidates and organize it well. You can look at any of the in progress works if you want to see an example.

Once you've picked a candidate, make note of it here, and once their wiki is finished, say so on here as well.

1. Jeb Bush - Claudio - in progress
2. Ben Carson - Carlin - finished
3. Bernie Sanders - Will - in progress
4. Hillary Clinton - Iris - in progress
5. Donald Trump - Albert - in progress
6. Ted Cruz - Ramee - in progress
7. Marco Rubio - Jason - in progress
8. Chris Christie - Ben - in progress
9. Rand Paul - Meghana - in progress
10. Martin O'Malley - Julia - in progress
11. Rick Santorum - Jackie - in progress

To Do Future

After we've filled out this lump candidate information, some potential courses of action include (prioritize something along the lines of this order):

Two most important things are:

• Linking debate transcriptions, possibly filtering them and pulling out what we think is important
• Topic area pages

Then:

• Reformatting to make pretty
• Fact checking the things they claim
• Link news articles / other sources
• Poll numbers (although these fluctuate so often, is it worth it?)
• Reformatting to make pretty

Republicans

• Jeb Bush
• Ben Carson
• Chris Christie
• Ted Cruz
• Carly Fiorina
• Mike Huckabee
• John Kaisch - omit
• Jim Gilmore - omit
• Rand Paul
• Marco Rubio
• Rick Santorum
• Donald Trump

Democrats

• Hillary Clinton
• Bernie Sanders
• Martin O'Malley

Debates

Republican Primary Debates

March 10th, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in TBD, Florida

March TBD, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in TBD

February 26th, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in Houston, Texas

February 13th, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in Greenville, South Carolina

February 6th, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in Manchester, New Hampshire

January 28, 2016: Republican Candidates Debate in Des Monies, Iowa

January 14, 2016: North Charleston, SC

December 15th, 2015: Las Vegas, NV

November 10th, 2015: Milwaukee, WI

October 28th, 2015: Boulder, CO

September 16th, 2015: Semi Valley, CA

August 6th, 2015: Cleveland, OH

Helpful Links

Earlier versions and info from presidential candidate platforms wiki page

• OnTheIssues (good for quotes)

http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

• Bing Political Index

https://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+political+index&qs=SS&pq=bing+poli&sc=8-9&sp=1&cvid=C807FAE42F3B41D1A75124B713D48522&FORM=QBRE&ghc=1