The Sunshine Week [1] website created a page entitled: "What the Candidates Are Saying About Open Government and FOI [2]" based on the the Sunshine Week survey [3] responses and analysis of articles, speeches, and debate transcripts that give insight into the candidates' thoughts on government access to information.

They state: "Only New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson [4] and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards [5] responded, and only Richardson answered all the questions. The remaining four leading major party candidates were re-surveyed following Super Tuesday in February. To date, none has replied".

They mention Obama's Senate co-sponsorship of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 [6], which went into effect on New Years Day '08 with the launch of USAspending.gov [7], a site that "gives people access to information on government contracts, grants and other awards".

Speaking of which, USAspending.gov is based on the software that runs Fedspending.org [8]. I'm going to examine both these sites and see how the differ, but so far, the only difference I'm seeing is that USAspending.gov has a lengthy privacy policy [9] which dotgovwatch.com claims is different [10] from their previous warning [11]!