@@======**Issue Positions Guide**======@@

@@====Our goal: To construct strong and defensible research determinations of federal candidates' **answers** to the questions posed by the Political Courage Test.====@@

<<====Issue Positions Manual:====

**Welcome to Issue Positions!**
==[[IssuePositionsIntroduction Issue Positions Introduction]]==

**==Issue Positions Training Materials:==**
The three steps to Issue Position research are:
1. [[IssuePositionsTraining Finding Evidence]]
2. [[VoteEasyDeterminations Making Determinations]]
3. [[VoteEasyCitations Citing Evidence]]

Formatting Issue Positions Research:
[[BuildingResearchSheets Building Research Sheets]]
[[PreparingSheetsForImport Preparing Research Sheets for Import]]

**==Useful Links:==**
1. [[SupervisingIssuePositions Supervising Issue Positions Research]]
2. [[IssuePositionResearchStandards Issue Positions Research Standards]]
3. Click [[https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/53279/joe-biden-jr HERE]] for link to completed Issue Positions
<<>> ====Quick References:====

**==Election Coverage Overview:==**
1. [[PCTProcessesOverview Overview of Candidate Coverage]]
2. [[ResearchCandidateCoverage Research Department Candidate Coverage]]
3. [[PCTCandidateCoverage PCT Department Candidate Coverage]]

**==SQL:==**
1. [[UsefulResearchQueries SQL at PVS]]
2. [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/ResearchSQLTutorial Vote Smart SQL Tutorial]]
3. [[http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp Third Party Tutorial]]
4. [[http://wiki.votesmart.org/PvsadminSchema Database Schema]]
5. [[ResearchSQLQueries Useful Queries]]

**==Other Resources:==**
1. [[VoteEasyTool VoteEasy]]
2. [[https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page LibreOffice Help]]