My favorite part of voting research? The judges. God, I'm easy. If they state "political" affiliation (when they're not supposed to have political affiliation), I immediately don't vote for them. If they put the words "Democrat", "Republican", "conservative" or "liberal" anywhere in their campaign material, I mark them off.
And really, it's that easy. Judges should be impartial. If they're campaigning with an agenda, I don't give a flying flip about what else they have to say.
So far in my research, I'm about evenly split on positions that do have political affiliation. And I tend to favor people who haven't been in the position of power (i.e., the ones not the incumbents). It's weird, but incumbents, even in really unknown positions, tend to think they don't have to tell where they stand on issues because "people should know from my record of service". I don't care who they are - tell me where you stand on the issues and don't assume I'm going to research your record in newspapers and on governments websites that are horribly convoluted.
My goal is to have the judges done before bed. That'll leave me seven things to research tomorrow.
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