Pick Your Candidate
A couple of weeks ago I found a website called Pick Your Candidate where you can rate your feelings about different issues and see how they align with the current presidential candidates. I didn’t realize how interesting my results were until now … here they are:
32: Kucinich
26: Biden
25: Obama
23: Gravel
21: Dodd
20: Clinton
19: Edwards
15: Paul
7: Richardson
-2: Cox
-5: Thompson
-9: Brownback
-10: Huckabee
-16: Giuliani
-17: Romney
-21: McCain
-23: Tancredo
-28: Hunter
To be honest, at this point I’m still listening to the candidates. Some of the above are definitely off the list, and I think I need to investigate why it says that I align (or don’t align) with some of them.
The overall stats (they take a while to load) are very interesting. And I’m not sure if my brother and I are actually related … his results were almost the opposite!
How about you?
December 21st, 2007 at 12:02 pm EST
Fortune Cookie say, “You are a true Comrade with a deep devotion to the Marxist struggle for equality.”
I am curious. With such dedication to the glorious overthrow of the capitalist pigs, why would you buy a home and oppress your fellow workers by charging them to live there? Remember : from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Also : any idea why the wealthiest candidates are toward the top of your list, and the candidate with the least wealth is at the bottom?
Willy Wong Ka is ROTFL.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:53 pm EST
What are you talking about, Willy? As is clearly stated in my post, I simply responded to the importance of each issue then listed the results that the website provided.
Maybe you should do the same so that everyone else can take turns insulting you with tangental extrapolations and culturally-insensitive dogma. Then we can all ROTFL together!
Seriously, man … I miss your wit.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:16 pm EST
If we are related, I may just disavow that if you vote for Kucinich. That would just be TOO MUCH.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:23 pm EST
Ha! I know little about him, other than the fact that he has a terrible domain and surprising spouse. Don’t worry, I’ll check it out thoroughly.
One of the big shortfalls of that website, in my opinion, is the issues it chooses to address. I think that many of them are important to consider when choosing legislators but much less relevant in the role of our country’s C.E.O., and I continue to wonder why we obsess about the specific topics we’ve chosen to focus on.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:45 pm EST
I never saw you as a Kucinich man but I forgot you went to school in Oxford.
They like strange things like coffee there. I actually have no idea who half those people are.
Is anyone else rather jaded by how elections are run, and how it never seems to be anyone you really, really really like, just that they are better than the other side of the coin?
I’m too young to be bothered, I just wanna make out and stuff.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:10 pm EST
I’m not jaded … but I do think that the system sucks. Almost as much as liquid dirt (coffee).
December 21st, 2007 at 10:20 pm EST
Have to agree with you that the way the issues were stated was awkward. However, just to be fair, I ran through the maze and it came up (Hope this formats OK. The disagree/unknown part is really interesting) :
41 Tancredo D-3, U2
38 Hunter D-2, U3
36 Paul D-6, U1
28 Romney D-3, U-3
26 Huckabee D-3, U-2
25 Brownback D-6, U-0
20 McCain D-6, U-1
19 Thompson D-2, U-9
17 Cox D-4, U-5
0 Giuliani 7/2
-13 Biden 10/3
-14 Richardson 11/2
-21 Edwards 12/2
-23 Dodd 11/3
-25 Clinton 13/0
-30 Obama 13/1
-33 Gravel 12/6
-47 Kucinich 16/0
Based on those results, it would be better if the two of us were separated by an Iron Curtain so that neither of us would get hurt. My issues were picked on the idea that the least government is the best government, but some government is better than no government. How Ron Paul ended up in the third spot makes me wonder if there wasn’t a hanging chad in the system. Obvious election fraud here, folks.
No more ROTFL. Now I’m CIMB. Make it a Bud.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:21 pm EST
Yuck. It didn’t format well at all.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:38 pm EST
From the little that I’ve learned, Ron Paul seems to want the least government of all. His views (and the polarization they’re causing) are quite fascinating, if you ask me. So now that Tancredo’s out of the running, are you leaning towards his endorsed candidate, Romney?
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 am EST
As a point of clarification I really only know what CBS, Digg, and the frontpage news tells me about the candidates. I don’t know who Kucinich is.
But I really don’t like any of them. They don’t appeal to me. None of them has gone out and done something amazing, like the single handed stopping of (insert amazing injustice here).
I want someone who can make the presidency look like a superhero role, so I can pile all the problems I have on him and say that he will solve it.
Actually the closest candidate for that is Arnold of Austria, but I really don’t want that…So, in his stead, I will have to say that Abraham Lincoln will do. He never finished off that last bit of his presidency, lets clone him! Or bring him back into someone who is already dead or not using their body, (celebrities)…
really, what should I think about the candidates? They all have the same ability to answer simple questions with complex answers…
Maybe if I was a real person elections would matter more.
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:31 am EST
Ha, I’m so out of politics, I was “unknown/other” on more than half my answers. I just wish there was a option for a majority of them that said “stay the hell out of my business” related to government issues. And the questions are phrased quite oddly — in relation to the option of Support or Oppose, because those aren’t merely the only options in an issue. Interesting. I guess I support Huckabee according to this …
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:41 pm EST
Lance : I actually find Duncan Hunter very refreshing, but would pull for Huckabee over Paul or Romney.
David : FYI, Dennis Kucinich was first elected to public office as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 31. His most notable achievement in his term as mayor was to drive the city into bankruptcy.
Quoting his friend Shirley MacLaine, “The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”
If you ever worried about Romney taking orders from the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, you will mess your pants over Denny-boy getting directions from a flying saucer.
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:11 pm EST
Here’s another one from ABC News. It asks for responses on an even more limited set of issues (Iraq, health care, immigration, and a couple random things) … and my results were:
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm EST
hahahahahaha! I just came up Romney - Thompson - Hunter. That poll was as biased as any you can find. Most of the choices they presented, I was looking for “None of the above”!
It is no wonder the stupid pollsters can’t tell who is going to win an election. They believe everybody has to think inside their little box. To get the right answers, you have to ask the right questions. When you compose a poll with a bias toward issues, people who don’t share that bias will throw the results off because even their disagreements with statements may not be with the issue, but with the bias.
Sort of like asking a candidate if last night was the last night he beat his wife. He dares not answer yes or no. Or even maybe. If he states that he has never beat his wife, some people will start asking why the question was raised, and will never trust him again.
If you are called by a pollster, pretend you are Borat and let your imagination go.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:29 am EST
But I won’t ever be called by a pollster, because I never have and will never own a landline. Yet another example of how the dinosaur of American politics can’t keep up with its people!
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm EST
Well, based upon what I’ve learned in the past few days (mostly from their own websites), Clinton, Romney, Huckabee, and Edwards are probably off of my list. I would be thrilled to have a leader, not a tool or manipulator.
Only 12 more to go!
December 24th, 2007 at 8:39 am EST
Here’s a write in candidate for you…
December 24th, 2007 at 10:35 am EST
well at least they have divinity guiding them. or strange hallucinations.
i’ve yet to see divine interference on most of the candidates.
maybe a lightening bolt on the forehead.
i like huckabee, just because of his name. very presidential sounding.
when you write in a candidate, and you get enough votes, does it matter at all? because of the elector, that is, from lance’s previously cited post, where he will make the votes not the majority ‘fancy public opinion poll’ votes.
i have fun with the callers I don’t know, you can be whoever you want with strange interests, like historical nonfiction magazines of the mid 1900’s, or an obsession with carrots and their correlation to land mineral rights.
Try to make a magazine about that, people who call me at strange and awkward times. like supper
December 31st, 2007 at 12:33 pm EST
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