Although it's not all the way down the county level, Project Vote Smart is pretty comprehensive for national and state offices; that is, if the candidate fills out the test(the NPAT) they send them. You can enter a 9 digit zip code to display all the candidates up for election in your districts.
You can find an excellent article here. Although there has actually been a fair amount of coverage in the media, it doesn't stay in the news long, and most of it does not cover what I would think would be the most important issue to Americans, which is the possible American involvement in the April 11, 2002 coup, and the continual "tacit approval" by both the Bush adminstration and a lot of Western media of the current _management_ led strike and the opposition politics it represents. If you try Googling for information, most of the articles seem to accuse Chavez of mismanaging the economy. I don't know enough about his policies to say anything, but the country has been in steady decline for 20 years, and the seemingly constant political turmoil is probably a big part of that. He certainly is not a communist, marxist, or even a socialist. The economy is very much capitalist, and very much a democracy. In fact, his reaction to these protests seems a lot more measured than what it would be in the US.
Actually, it so happens one of my good friends emigrated from Venezulea in the early 90s. He's pretty proud of his heritage, and a strong supporter of Chavez. Anecdotal evidence might not be scientific, but it still does a lot for me.
-OGG Vorbis Handling. If iTunes doesn't cut it for you, try Frogg. Personally I'd rather just wait for the plug-in to be optimized, which I'm sure it will eventually.
-Precision CD Burning. Get Toast. I don't use it, so I don't know what the featureset is like, but the impression I get is that it is fairly comprehensive.
-Precision CD Ripping. Try AudioCDRescue (you can get it from versiontracker) for your exact audio copy needs.
-Keyboard navigation. Check out the keyboard panel in the System Preferences. It's definitely unwieldy at times but you can do most everything without the mouse.
-Graphical FTP Client. I recommend Transmit although there are others, particularly if you use classic mode.
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Although it's not all the way down the county level, Project Vote Smart is pretty comprehensive for national and state offices; that is, if the candidate fills out the test(the NPAT) they send them. You can enter a 9 digit zip code to display all the candidates up for election in your districts.
I read the reviews of Revolutions and yet chose to see it anyway. Now I must understand why I made that choice.
You can find an excellent article here. Although there has actually been a fair amount of coverage in the media, it doesn't stay in the news long, and most of it does not cover what I would think would be the most important issue to Americans, which is the possible American involvement in the April 11, 2002 coup, and the continual "tacit approval" by both the Bush adminstration and a lot of Western media of the current _management_ led strike and the opposition politics it represents. If you try Googling for information, most of the articles seem to accuse Chavez of mismanaging the economy. I don't know enough about his policies to say anything, but the country has been in steady decline for 20 years, and the seemingly constant political turmoil is probably a big part of that. He certainly is not a communist, marxist, or even a socialist. The economy is very much capitalist, and very much a democracy. In fact, his reaction to these protests seems a lot more measured than what it would be in the US.
Actually, it so happens one of my good friends emigrated from Venezulea in the early 90s. He's pretty proud of his heritage, and a strong supporter of Chavez. Anecdotal evidence might not be scientific, but it still does a lot for me.
-OGG Vorbis Handling. If iTunes doesn't cut it for you, try Frogg. Personally I'd rather just wait for the plug-in to be optimized, which I'm sure it will eventually.
-Precision CD Burning. Get Toast. I don't use it, so I don't know what the featureset is like, but the impression I get is that it is fairly comprehensive.
-Precision CD Ripping. Try AudioCDRescue (you can get it from versiontracker) for your exact audio copy needs.
-Keyboard navigation. Check out the keyboard panel in the System Preferences. It's definitely unwieldy at times but you can do most everything without the mouse.
-Graphical FTP Client. I recommend Transmit although there are others, particularly if you use classic mode.
Good luck with the whole switching process.