Take the Presidential Candidate Test!

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Dennis
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Hey guys,

This is awesome:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460&nav=menu132_3_10

Answer 11 questions, and they tell you which presidential candidate you should vote for. (or at least, which candidate you have the most in common with, in regards to their issues).

Joe Biden and Barack Obama tied for first for me.  So I guess I'm voting for Obama!

ps
My score was 59 for Biden and Obama.

 

 

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My highest match was 78% with Obama.

I wish I had a higher percentage match than 78. But, hey, it's only 11 questions.

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I got Obama too! Hillary was second. My first place republican was Rudy, and last place with five points was Fred Thompson. Sorry Tom!

 

nice find dennis.

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Ron Paul 58

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I was most in line with Kucinich. Whoop.

Smartazboy
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Obama ftw. Sad but not surprising, Clinton was a close second.

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I got Kucinich, with Obama in a close second.

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Kucinich for me.

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I was a tie between Obama and Clinton. McCain was dead last for me.

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Kucinich isn't on the list anymore, since he dropped out, I guess, so I got Gravel with 58.  Bah, democracy.  I still want Kucinich's Worker's White House! *fist in air*

 

Okay, I'm done

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Mine was Obama, not surprisingly. I really like Kucinich too, that wonderful pixie of a man.

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Governments are nothing but an illusion established by the rich to give the general public the illusion of peace and order.

Thank god I'm not a voter.

absinthe_kiss
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Iraq: When should we pull our troops out of Iraq?

I looked really hard but I couldn't find a box to tick that says "you had no business being there in the first place you self-reighteous morons with a God complex!" but I couldn't find one...

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absinthe_kiss
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kayekaga wrote:

Governments are nothing but an illusion established by the rich to give the general public the illusion of peace and order.

Thank god I'm not a voter.

*has intellectual orgasm* Thank you...I'm not alone! Smile Big

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more and more, im convinced there's no difference between any candidates who might actually get enough electoral votes to take the white house.

the only real, honest change is going to come from the fringes, if it comes at all.

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I prefer the Political Compass (aka Moral Politics) Test :
http://politicalcompass.org/
http://www.moral-politics.com/xpolitics.aspx?menu=Home

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World's Smallest Political Quiz:

http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html

I'm as far north as you can go on that.

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PocketFives
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I dig the political compass test too. That northwest quadrant, man. Just about everybody's up there. American politicians, that is.

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Giggan
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Here's me on the compass, test #1...

I didn't fancy many of the questions, very false dichotomy. Example, corporations are state inventions. So the interests of corporations vs. people was there way of saying 'state protected business vs. state subjects'. And what about the racist questions? Do they move you to the 'right' if you answer 'people should stay 'within their own'?'

I see they treat left-right as economic, and north-south as 'social control'. So you can't be economically authoritarian?

Also, this didn't please me either...

"Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position."

Gandhi was a voluntaryist first, socialist second. For all intents and purposes, he was a capitalist who rejected capitalism, because he felt people should be free to do as they chose, but should be persuaded by non-violent means (thus non-governmental) to live more communally.

Though I was glad to see this:

"In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground."

Second test, everything that said 'we' or 'should' or 'responsibility', I did 'none of the above'. Everything I could, it was 'private matter'.

So it turns out its a 'morals' test. If that's not the most subjective thing ever created...

On the graph, I'm at -2, -3. (too lazy to photo it)

System: Liberalism
Ideology: Capital Democratism
Party: Democratic Party
Presidents: Bill Clinton
04' Election: John Kerry
08' Election: Barrack Obama

roflmao.

PFives, unless you don't feel like taking the test again to figure it out, how did you score on these? Since we are bruthas from a different anarchas.

These tests assume there is a left vs right, and I contend that there isn't. I semi-ranted about this in the Zizek thread. In reality, it's state vs. individual, whether it's your pocketbook or your panties they're going for is just a matter of personal preference.

Also, Kayekaga, kickass.

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Ozymandias
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I got Ron Paul. Probably because I don't like black people.

So when's the election?

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Don't like black people?
Hmm, my sense of humour might not be of that kind.

Anyways, I doubt there was ever a president candidate to my taste since I'm kind of far left/anarchist moving towards pure anarchist wanting nothing to do with politicians...
But then there might be a bigger difference between not-so-good and not-so-good than you'd think.

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