cthulu23

There's more than one way to spell cthulu, and this happens to be one of them.

Anyhoo...yes, both sides do differentiate between their economic platforms, but they (IMHO) are pushing variations on the same theme. As I said, you will here about Bush's tax cuts and trade issues, and perhaps some social security talk, but they might have burned out the public with that in the last election.

The war will be mentioned incessantly by both sides until the election. There is just no way to get around mentioning it. If you are looking for more traditional defense issues, they both probably want to increase defense spending, but Bush will push missle defense.

It's hard to write true/false, yes/no questions like this without sounding biased in some way. This kind of questionare almost demands a scantron. For example,

"Do you think that protecting the environment is:

1. always more important than protecting business
2. sometimes more important than protecting business
3. sometimes less important than protecting business
4. always less important than protecting business"

etc, etc. That kind of sucks the fun right out of it, though, and it requires some skill to actually make your results meaningful. You can always try one of those online ideology surveys to tell the doofus what he believes in.