To start using the website, just enter any zip code, or click through a state then a city to get to the information page. You can find information for all candidates as well as the positions in contention with each tab. Click on a tab to view the candidates’ profiles which include their party affiliation, education, professional resume, and political resume.

Elect.io also has a special algorithm that summarizes the candidates’ position on several issues. This allows you to sort through the candidates in a comparison table.

Features:

• Sort through candidates’ advocacy and issues in a comparison table.
• All candidates included.
• Search using your zip code or by browsing stats and cities.
• Tracks regional races.
• Similar Tools: Google 2010 U.S. Election Ratings,  Public.Perpetually, Poligraft, WhiteHouseApp, Legistalker and In Quotes
• Also read: 8 Election Day Voting Resource Websites

Check out Elect.io @ www.elect.io

You can search by typing in names of Congressmen, or selecting the state and clicking on the respective name. It’ll immediately show total contributions received by him/her, Senate rank and overall rank.

In the screenshot above, if you click on the arrow pointing towards the right, you’ll get more details about the top contributors for that senator. All the data is provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Features

• Track influence of senators and the donations they are receiving.
• Data is sourced from Center for Responsive Politics.
• See the top contributors list for each politician.
• Collaborative effort of WIRED, MAPLight.org and others.
• Similar tools: Public.Perpetually, Poligraft, WhiteHouseApp, Legistalker and In Quotes.

Check out WIRED Influence Tracker @ www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/influence-tracker (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Perpetually Public Data Project is a free to use website that saves different versions of politicians’ websites. Their stands in the past are kept on record. So in case they change anything ““ an opinion, a statement, or a campaign angle ““ you can use the archives to find it out.

The site is a great tool for public companies, popular brands, news sources, and voters who want to research an election candidate. You start by creating an account on the website and then adding politicians to your “news list”. Politicians can be searched via their name or the US state they belong to.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Archives politicians’ websites.
• Lets you add multiple politicians to your “˜feed’.
• Provides a thumbnail view of each link before you click on it.
• Similar tools: Poligraft, WhiteHouseApp, Legistalker and In Quotes.

Check out www.public.perpetually.com via Wsj (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Data used to display the ratings is taken from the Rothenberg Political Report, CQ Politics, the Cook Political Report, and RealClearPolitics. Visitors to the site can choose to view the stats from each source individually. The map displays voting probabilities of each state are displayed on the map; this predicts whether a particular state will go Republican or Democrat.

You can zoom into portions of the map to focus on individual states. You can also compare results for the Senate, House, and Governorships of each state.

Features:

• A useful tool by Google for people interested in 2010 US election predictions.
• Voting probabilities are shown state-wise on a Google Map.
• The map can be magnified.
• Data is collected from Rothenberg Political Report, CQ Politics, the Cook Political Report, and RealClearPolitics ““ visitors can choose their data source from these options.
• Visitors can compare results for each state’s Senate, House, and Governorships.

Check out “Google 2010 U.S. Election Ratings” @ maps.google.com/intl/en_us/2010election/ratings.html (via LifeHacker) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

How doest it work?

1. Choose what issues are important to you (Taxes and Budget, Science, Civil Liberties and Domestic Security, Iraq and Foreign Policy, Internet and Media, Trade and Economics, Environment and Energy, Gun Control, etc.) and indicate the degree of importance by allocating points on each issue.

2. Answer a series of questions about those topics by simply showing whether you support or oppose policy proposals on rating scale.

3.Once you have finished wih questions click on “See my results”. GlassBooth then will analyze your answers and show you how you match up to each candidate. You can see the overall results or if you wish drill down and read the candidates’ statements on each issue, with links to the sources.

Visit GlassBooth @ www.glassbooth.org (via techcrunch.com)