New Voter Guide Follows the Money

Crowdpac is a web site that aims to produce a data-driven voter guide to help voters decide which candidates to support.

Led by a Stanford political scientist, a former Google business development executive and a former senior adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, Crowdpac takes federal and state campaign finance data -- who donates money to whom -- and uses that and other details to calculate a political position along a spectrum for candidates. Not only are donations to candidates included, but contributions between candidates and other organizations are also listed.