Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan group dedicated to providing voters with basic information on issues and candidate’s positions for all elective offices from the president down to the state legislature.

They also send out a “Political Courage Test” to all candidates, which is set up like this:

The Political Courage Test asks candidates which items they will support if elected. It does not ask them to indicate which items they will oppose. Through extensive research of public polling data, we discovered that voters are more concerned with what candidates would support when elected to office, not what they oppose. If a candidate does not select a response to any part or all of any question, it does not necessarily indicate that the candidate is opposed to that particular item.

All three major candidates for Missouri governor (Nixon, Hulshof, and Steelman) declined to complete the survey.

In the 9th Congressional district, only two major candidates have taken the test: Lyndon Bode (D) and Ken Jacob (D). (The other districts’ candidates can be found at that link also.)

Hardly any of the State Senate candidates (5 out of 33) have taken the test.

As for the State House candidates, only 32 out of 163 accepted the test.

Check the links to see if the candidates from your area have political courage.

Missouri’s gubernatorial PCT can be found here. The Missouri State Legislative PCT can be found here. The Congressional PCT is here.

**UPDATE: I should also note that neither Obama nor McCain has taken the test either.