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04/17/2008: "McCain gets ousted from board for lack of straight talk"

Sen. John McCain, a long-time board member of Project Vote Smart, was kicked off yesterday for failing to provide information about where he stands on key issues.


Project Vote Smart, which aims to try to get past the sound bites to find out where candidates stand on issues, administers the Political Courage Test to pin folks down on exactly where they stand.

The four-page test this year for presidential candidates asks about guns, health care, immigration, national security, education, abortion and many others.

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have also refused to submit their responses, but Kimball told us today it was a bit "embarrassing" for PVS that McCain, one of their own board members, refused.

[ No wonder most Americans don't know why they support one candidate over another - even the candidates themselves aren't sure what their policies are! ]

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