Professor Vernellia Randall of the University of Dayton, Ohio is currently in the process of analyzing the 2008 presidential candidates and their position on racial inequality. In Randall's words, the assessment "is not about which candidate's platform is best, but which candidate does more than acknowledge the existence of racial inequalities, but includes a plan to eliminate those inequalities." The analysis looks at candidates of both the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as candidates from the Green Party and the Socialist Party.

The individual candidate analyses:

• Hillary Clinton (Democratic Party)
• Mike Huckabee (Republican Party)
• John McCain (Republican Party)
• Cynthia McKinney (Green Party)
• Brian Moore (Socialist Party)
• Barrack Obama (Democratic Party)
• Mitt Romney (Democratic Party)

The NAACP also recently released the results of a questionnaire on civil rights completed by the Clinton and Obama campaigns. That questionnaire featured responses from both campaigns on issues including election and immigration reform, universal health care, criminal justice issues, predatory lending, public education, equal opportunity, gun violence prevention, affordable housing, fighting global poverty and disease, a living wage, African and Caribbean trade aid and development, ex-offender re-entry into society, and DC Voting Rights.