I normally don’t post source material wholesale like this, but this piece from Progressive States was so informative, I just couldn’t see condensing it. So here are the positions of many of the Presidentials on both sides of the aisle on the bread and butter issues that define the economic policy in the states.

Given the experience of Senate filibusters against innovative policies proposed at the federal level, here at Progressive States we are inevitably cautious in our hopes based on Presidential candidate proposals.

But state policymakers can in many cases adapt the best of the candidate proposals for state laws– and in many cases already have done so, since as this Dispatch will outline, many of the best ideas proposed by the candidates are already part of the debate in the states. This issue will focus on three areas — energy policy, health care, and aid for working families — where states can adapt candidate proposals.

Much, much more on the flip…