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As far as I can tell, Andrew Yang is the only canidate to extensively outline his positions. https://www.yang2020.com/policies/ https://www.yang2020.com/polici

As far as I can tell, Andrew Yang is the only canidate to extensively outline his positions. https://www.yang2020.com/policies/ https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

dfxm12 8y ago
You'll see other candidates outline their positions as time moves forward. Just check Sanders' website leading up to the last election: https://web.archive.org/web/20160714080659/https://berniesanders.com/issues/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160714080659/https://berniesan...
elicash 8y ago
He has taken a lot of positions, but these are hardly detailed proposals. Check out his early childcare education plan and then compare that to, say, Warren's childcare proposal (who has the most detailed policy agenda by FAR even if it's more difficult to find on the website). https://www.yang2020.com/policies/early-childhood-education/ https://www.yang2020.com/policies/early-childhood-education/ https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-for-universal-child-care-762535e6c20a https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-for-universal-child-c...
- beat 8y ago
  Detailed policy positions won't survive the hard reality of the legislative process anyway. That's why in software, we think agile is better than waterfall.
dqv 8y ago
This is rather common for all candidates. For example, Bernie Sanders outlines[0] all his positions in a similar fashion. I'd actually be more surprised if a candidate did not outline their positions this way. [0]: https://feelthebern.org/all-issues/ https://feelthebern.org/all-issues/
- knolax 8y ago
  Not saying your wrong, but there's a disclaimer at the bottom of that website: "This website was built & is maintained by volunteers with no official relation to Bernie Sanders. We’re regular people, unassociated with any Super PACs or billionaires. "
- simonsarris 8y ago
  That's not Bernie's website. On Bernie's website, he actually outlines zero issues. You can donate, sign up for emails, or see the store, or see the site in Spanish or the privacy policy, and that's all. https://berniesanders.com/ https://berniesanders.com/ If he has a platform, he doesn't have a shred of it on his own site.
m0zg 8y ago
That's because he's a noob. He thinks facts and "positions" matter in political campaigns. They do not. You don't publish an encyclopedia-sized set of "policies" (spot checking which I've discovered that many of them are extremely ill-conceived), and expect anyone to read, let alone remember any of them. In fact anything more than very general and ambiguous statements throw you into an argumentative morass in which you will drown as your opponents focus on the less thought-through parts of your program and blow it completely out of proportion. If, by some miracle, this guy makes it through the primaries, Trump will take him apart pretty easily.

As far as I can tell, Andrew Yang is the only canidate to extensively outline his positions. https://www.yang2020.com/policies/ https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

dfxm12 8y ago

You'll see other candidates outline their positions as time moves forward. Just check Sanders' website leading up to the last election: https://web.archive.org/web/20160714080659/https://berniesanders.com/issues/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160714080659/https://berniesan...

elicash 8y ago

He has taken a lot of positions, but these are hardly detailed proposals. Check out his early childcare education plan and then compare that to, say, Warren's childcare proposal (who has the most detailed policy agenda by FAR even if it's more difficult to find on the website). https://www.yang2020.com/policies/early-childhood-education/ https://www.yang2020.com/policies/early-childhood-education/ https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-for-universal-child-care-762535e6c20a https://medium.com/@teamwarren/my-plan-for-universal-child-c...

beat 8y ago
Detailed policy positions won't survive the hard reality of the legislative process anyway. That's why in software, we think agile is better than waterfall.

dqv 8y ago

This is rather common for all candidates. For example, Bernie Sanders outlines[0] all his positions in a similar fashion. I'd actually be more surprised if a candidate did not outline their positions this way. [0]: https://feelthebern.org/all-issues/ https://feelthebern.org/all-issues/

knolax 8y ago
Not saying your wrong, but there's a disclaimer at the bottom of that website: "This website was built & is maintained by volunteers with no official relation to Bernie Sanders. We’re regular people, unassociated with any Super PACs or billionaires. "
simonsarris 8y ago
That's not Bernie's website. On Bernie's website, he actually outlines zero issues. You can donate, sign up for emails, or see the store, or see the site in Spanish or the privacy policy, and that's all. https://berniesanders.com/ https://berniesanders.com/ If he has a platform, he doesn't have a shred of it on his own site.

m0zg 8y ago

That's because he's a noob. He thinks facts and "positions" matter in political campaigns. They do not. You don't publish an encyclopedia-sized set of "policies" (spot checking which I've discovered that many of them are extremely ill-conceived), and expect anyone to read, let alone remember any of them. In fact anything more than very general and ambiguous statements throw you into an argumentative morass in which you will drown as your opponents focus on the less thought-through parts of your program and blow it completely out of proportion. If, by some miracle, this guy makes it through the primaries, Trump will take him apart pretty easily.