Party of Reason

Dedicated to making sane decisions based on information

• We support level-headed candidates who make sober, sound, and reasonable judgments based on information, science, and statistics
• We support candidates who are not outraged, who do not feign outrage, who do not motivate through fear or religion, and who are not prone to hyperbole
• We support media that report news in persective, supported by facts and statistics, not by anecdote
• We believe “the truth” does not mean asking one democrat and one republican for their respective opinions

We like:

• moderation, reason, rationality
• data, information, statistics
• science
• technology
• geeks
• transparency
• open source and open data
• OpenSecrets.org
• FactCheck.org
• watchdog.net
• politifact.com
• NPR
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Oh, and this: God Angrily Clarifies “Don’t Kill” Rule
• choices
• Americans Elect; No Labels
• Sergei Brin’s plea
• some democrats and some republicans
• keeping our identity small

We don’t like:

• fearmongering
• demagoguery
• religious justifications for policy
• partisan politics
• party mouthpieces
• talking/arguing heads as news
• balance as truth
• politics as sport (but without the mutual respect)
• some democrats and some republicans
• the two-party oligopoly

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We are:

• Name, Optional: City, State
• David Pennock, Princeton, NJ
• Daniel Reeves, Portland, OR
• George Kornegay, e
• Alex Ames, Madison, WI
• Aaron Gertler, New Haven, CT
• David Ernst, Dallas, TX