techPresident Grades Republicans
Dec 7, 2007
Last month, the techPresident team gave grades to the Democratic presidential candidates, rating each of them on a series of six criteria that techPresident's founders considered key. There was a tie for first place, with Sens. Barack Obama and John Edwards receiving a grade of A-.
They've since published their review of the Republican candidates -- and, taken as a whole, the ratings are much lower than those given to the Dems. The top grade was a C+ given to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who inched out Rep. Ron Paul and former Gov. Mike Huckabee (techPresident gave both Cs).
The process is clearly a subjective one, decided by the techPresident editors. So what are the criteria that were used to make these assessments?
The candidates were judged on how well they articulated a position, on their sites or in appearances or media reports, declaring their support for the following six initiatives outlined by techPresident:
1. Declare the Internet a public good in the same way we think of water, electricity, highways or public education.
2. Commit to providing affordable high-speed wireless Internet access nationwide.
3. Declare a "Net Neutrality" standard forbidding Internet service providers from discriminating among content based on origin, application or type.
4. Instead of "No Child Left Behind," our goal should be "Every Child Connected."
5. Commit to building a Connected Democracy where it becomes commonplace for local as well as national government proceedings to be heard by anyone any time and over time.
6. Create a National Tech Corps, because as our country becomes more reliant on 21st century communications to maintain and build our economy we need to protect our communications infrastructure.
That's how techPresident defines a "tech President"...click here for details of the Republicans' grades.
Tags:
2008 elections, Republicans, social media
