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• Art: Value vs measurement
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Americans for the Arts provides links to position papers of where the presidential candidates stand on issues relating to the arts.

Take a gander at what they say and know that just because a link no longer works doesn’t mean the candidate doesn’t have a position. I’m looking at your shifty website, Huckabee.

Among the Democrats, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama express strong support for the arts and education. Bonus points go to Clinton, who pointed out how NCLB left the arts (and, by extension, the children) behind. Bonus points go to Barack Obama for proposing new, innovative programs to bring the arts to places where they are needed the most. Additional bonus points go to Mike Huckabee, who has the courage among Republicans to say anything, and to take a very strong position at that — calling the arts, “weapons of mass instruction.”

Streetsblog has done an excellent job of researching the presidential candidates’ records on transportation. What they brought up, combined with the additional comments on each post, reveals much about how each of the candidates stand not only on transportation reform, but also on energy and the environment.

Part one discusses the Republicans.

Part two discusses the Democrats.

In case you’re on the fence one way or another, this is a little-discussed issue of real substance that may help sway you one way or another.