Where does Hillary Clinton stand on immigration - and did she wear a veil when she married Bill?
Does Mike Huckabee think art education is important - and did he buy Janet a big rock?
Answers to questions both political and nuptial can be found at www.bridesdecide.com, a Web site dedicated to the 2008 election and brought to you by those who brought you that über-wedding site, The Knot, and its sister sites, Weddings.com and The Nest.
Bridesdecide editor Kathleen Murray - who is also deputy editor at The Knot - said chief executive officer David Liu saw a clear need for political expression among the sites' 12 million members.
"In a lot of instances, people were talking politics within the [existing topic] boards," Murray said. "And some other members would say, 'Hey, we're here to talk about favors! Can't you talk about that somewhere else?' "
Since Aug. 13, they can.
"This is an area for them to become more educated about politics and the election - and to speak their minds in a forum exclusively about that," Murray said of bridesdecide.com. The goal is "to really help them find out information about the election."
You've got to be a member of one of the sites to post or reply to messages, but anyone can use the site to compare the presidential candidates' positions on issues The Knot Inc. determined - via survey - were of interest to its members: health care, immigration, education, abortion, environment/energy, the Iraq war, same-sex marriage, taxes and women's rights.
Users can either compare all candidates' positions on a single issue or choose candidates to compare on all the issues. They can find out when their state holds its primary election, find their polling place, or paticipate in an opinion poll, such as, "Do you and your significant other share most of the same political views?"
Bridesdecide.com also shows its users a photograph of a youthful Hillary and Bill, he in a polka-dot tie, she in a simple dress with a small bouquet and free-flowing hair.
And there are Mike and Janet Huckabee, the former governor and first lady of Arkansas, when both were 18 years old, he in a powder-blue tux.
The two started dating in their senior year of high school. Before Mike proposed, he asked permission from Janet's mother and stepfather. "I didn't have money for a ring yet, so I used a pull-tab from a soda can and proposed to her in her living room," Huckabee says.
And bridesdecide lets readers in on the story of how Ohio representative Dennis Kucinich met his wife, Elizabeth, during the second week she worked in America.
Elizabeth, who is from England, had a meeting with Kucinich in his office on Capitol Hill concerning monetary policy. "As I walked into his office my eyes fell upon a shelf bearing an illustration depicting 'light consciousness,' a bust of Gandhi, and then Dennis," Elizabeth says. "That's when I knew I had met the man I would one day marry." He felt the same way. When the eight-minute meeting ended and Elizabeth left the room, Dennis called his friend, actress Mimi Kennedy, and said, "I met her."
Why include all this mushy stuff if the goal is to educate women on the issues and get them to the polls?
"We are a wedding company - a life-stage company - and we wanted to have a little fun, too," Murray said. "Most of our users love to read about people's real weddings - so why not the candidates'?"
The candidates don't seem to mind sharing, nor to find weddings too fluffy a topic to mix with their messages.
"I think that sites like this are necessary," said Alex Colvin, a spokesman for the campaign of Mike Gravel. "Things like this show the human side of the candidates, who they are in their home life. Politicians are people, too."
Gravel could stand to have people see his softer side, Colvin said. Even when he was a senator representing Alaskans, he was seen as an outsider, according to the spokesman.
Bridesdecide is a fun way to "turn people on to the process," he said. "Particularly with a campaign like ours, which suffers a bit of a media blackout, social networking sites are an important way to interface with constituents."
Social networks are big to the highly visible, too.
Ann Lewis, senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said that it's part of the Clinton strategy to connect with women in the networks they have built for themselves - and this Web site is part of such a network.
Lewis also sees sharing the common experiences of getting married - from picking the spouse to picking the dress and suit or tux - as a great way to get another conversation started.
"It is our hope that . . . the conversation moves to what's most important for our families. What do we want for our future?" Lewis said.
Bridesdecide - whose slogan is "Get engaged in the 2008 election" - contacted every campaign. Those who have already responded are on the Web site now, with others coming.
Political information was gleaned from the candidates' Web sites, news reports, and other sources, Murray said.
So far, there are no advertisements, but the site is open to that possibility, she said. Potential advertisers could include the candidates, political committees, the parties, other political organizations, or voter organizations.
The candidates and their spouses were asked about their courtships and weddings - not their marriages. So there's no mention of anyone's divorce or infidelity.
"We answered the questions we were asked," Lewis said. "Anyone who wants more information can read Living History," Hillary Clinton's autobiography.