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Statewide Voter Guides
With less than a week before election day presidential candidate surveys and voter guides are everywhere, yet it can be difficult to find information on state candidates.
But with the fairly recent expansion of state government spending (Pennsylvania’s General Fund spending increased 110% from $12.4B to $26.1B between 1990 and 2006, (40% in inflation-adjusted dollars) it’s worth the time to check out these voter guides.
But with the fairly recent expansion of state government spending (Pennsylvania’s General Fund spending increased 110% from $12.4B to $26.1B between 1990 and 2006, (40% in inflation-adjusted dollars) it’s worth the time to check out these voter guides.
General Voter Guides and Candidate Surveys
- VoteSmart
- The League of Women Voters’ SmartVoter
- The Pennsylvania Prosperity Project
Voter Guides for geographical areas
- Pennlive’s voter guide for central PA
- WTAJ’s voters’ guide for central PA
- WSPU’s candidate central for central PA
- Voter guide for Western PA
- The Post-Gazette’s voter guide for Western PA
- The Inquirer’s voter guide for southeastern PA
Issue Oriented Voter Guides
- The Pennsylvania Family Institute’s Voter Guide 2008
- Gun Owners’ candidate rankings (congressional only)
- Immigration Report Card (congressional incumbents only)
- PA Families for Public Cyber Schools candidate survey (state only)
- PA Right to Work candidate survey (state only)
- Democracy Rising candidate survey on government reform (state only)
Also check out our analysis of the Water and Sewer ballot question and more election information on ballotpedia.