From FRC Action:
While the media largely ignores the party platforms after the political conventions, they should play a major role in every voters' decision-making for 2016. Apart from outlining the core beliefs and philosophies of the two parties, these documents are -- at their core -- the party's contracts with voters for how both sides will govern if elected. In many ways, these documents are just as important -- if not more so -- in guiding the politics of both parties as the candidates themselves.