ONE Campaign Presidential Candidate Comparison

Dear Stephen,

Tens of thousands of petitions, thousands of phone calls, dozens of petition deliveries—the candidates have heard you loud and clear. You never let up and now they have answered.

Visit our new On the Record website to watch the candidates' video answers to the questions you've been asking. Try our comparison tool that lets you decide which candidate has the most effective plan to end extreme poverty and global disease.

http://www.onevote08.org/ontherecord?id=163-3689617-RRUtFl&t=2

The On the Record site features each of the candidates' personal video responses to ONE members and short summaries of their plans on:

• Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
• Eradicating malaria
• Improving child and maternal health
• Achieving universal primary education
• Cutting in half the number of people without clean water or enough food

For months, ONE members have been asking the presidential candidates to pay attention to the plight of the voiceless millions, struggling to break the cycle of poverty. When it comes to getting these issues into the middle of the debate over America's role in the world, we haven't taken no for an answer.

For the first time ever, the entire presidential field is debating these issues and coming up with plans that recognize the challenge and the opportunity we have to build a better future for the world's most vulnerable people. The result is a huge victory for you, our members and for the millions of people around the world living in extreme poverty.

The candidates' detailed responses to our questions show that they are tuned into these issues like never before.

Check out what they are saying:

http://www.onevote08.org/ontherecord?id=163-3689617-RRUtFl&t=3

This focus on fighting extreme poverty and global disease couldn't come at a more critical time. We're only one month away from the Iowa caucuses and the candidates know that 2.4 million ONE members are comparing their plans and looking for leadership, as we make up our minds on who to support in 2008.

This ability to compare the candidates on the issues and hear directly from them is exciting, no doubt. But breaking news from the front lines of the fight to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world puts this campaign in a whole new perspective.

Numbers released in the last week show that the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is currently providing life-saving antiretroviral treatment for approximately 1.4 million people in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean who would otherwise go without. At the same time, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is reporting an 88% increase in the number of people to whom it is providing ARV treatment to in only one year.

In 2002, it is estimated that only 50,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa were being treated with these life-saving drugs. It was your voice and the voices of millions of other Americans that made these advances possible, by showing our leaders in Washington that we're paying attention to and voting on issues related to global poverty.

http://www.onevote08.org/ontherecord?id=163-3689617-RRUtFl&t=4

Through On the Record, we have the chance to make a more informed choice than ever before. This year, we'll go into the primary season with more knowledge and more confidence that extreme poverty and global disease will be central to the 2008 election.

Thank you for your voice,

Josh Peck, ONE.org