A summary of area and statewide voter guides

Update: A new website has been launched with ‘non-partisan’ voting guides. The guides are in pdf format and list ratings and endorsements from 12 different organizations on all the candidates for office, from U.S. Senate to State Board of Ed.

We’ve gotten several emails over the past few days about voter guides that are available on the internet for printing and distribution.

Here’s a list of some across the state and some national voter guides that might be helpful. It’s important to note that we don’t endorse all of the candidates that are listed on these guides. However, some issues are more important to some than others, so they are a good, quick way to find out where candidates stand so you can make your own decision.

KRA preferred candidates can be found here where they are listed by county or click here for the statewide list for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Kansas SBOE, Kansas House and Senate.

Kansas Taxpayers Network 2008 Ratings for the House and for the Senate. The lists aren’t very pretty, but if you have a specific legislator in mind, the numbers can be very convincing to undecided voters.

The National Federation of Independent Business has endorsements for both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The NFIB also has legislative ratings.

Kansans for Life have listed endorsements for the entire state here. You can also find county by county voter guides from KFL here. Johnson County residents can find their voter guides here.

The American Family Association has a profile of various legislators and candidates for Kansas here.

The Christian Coalition has an area on their website for 2008 voter guides, but nothing has been posted as of today. It might be worthwhile to check back in a few days.

Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link has an area where you can put in your address and zip code and it’ll give you a personalized voter guide. It’s not very helpful for printing and distributing however.

The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund has candidates grades and endorsements for Kansas. The State Rifle Association has the same grades but in a slightly more printer friendly format here.

If you come across or know of any good voter guides that we’ve missed, please email the link (or where we can find it) to exec@kansasra.org so we can add it to our list.