That politics quiz everyone's doing

[tardis_stowaway]

93% Mike Gravel
91% Dennis Kucinich
85% Barack Obama
84% John Edwards
83% Chris Dodd
82% Joe Biden
80% Hillary Clinton
70% Bill Richardson
39% Rudy Giuliani
25% Ron Paul
25% John McCain
18% Mitt Romney
18% Tom Tancredo
17% Mike Huckabee
8% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Wait, who's Mike Gravel? I know that I'm not a perfect match for any of the mainstream candidates, but I'd predicted it would match me with Kucinich. Not that I'm voting for either Pebbles (err, Gravel) or Kucinich. I may be Lefty McGreenPants, but I'm also practical. I want a voice in the race between the people who have a realistic chance of getting elected. Obama's my main man, although I would also be quite content with Edwards.

January 20, 2009 can't come soon enough.

Comments

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

I think the whole thing's rigged. My top match was Joe Biden. I think whoever made the meme set it so that you'd get the lesser known candidates with the same views as you, hoping to encourage voting for the lessers.

Silly meme maker.

PS: Obama's my main man too. :)

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

You have a suspicious mind! (That's not necessarily a bad thing in this nation of hanging chads and misfiring electronic voting machines). It's certainly possible that s/he set up the meme with an agenda of opening more people towards more obscure candidates. I tend to think it does its best to match voters with candidates based solely on issues, but ignores the fact that when people pick a candidate they figure in all sorts of other factors like perceived trustworthiness, likability, hairstyle, region of origin, etc.

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that I think there are shenanigans afoot.

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've seen several people on my flist get Clinton, Obama and Edwards as their top matches. My top were Kucinich (which didn't surprise me - I am a Lefty McLeft from Europe and a former trade union activist, after all) and Gravel, whom I don't know at all. Clinton was way down, and the reds nowhere.

Looking forward to tonight's results? I'm fascinated by the level of support Obama's getting - who'd have guessed that a black man would do so well? And it's brilliant.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Results seem to be in now, and I'm not as happy as I was about Iowa with the Democratic results. Looking on the bright side, in a way it's good because the race will still feel very much contested when other states get a chance to vote.The Republican results were somewhat more pleasing, since McCain is one of the very few Republican candidates I consider better than a sharp stick in the eye. However, I would still pick any of the Dems over him.

Obama's support is rather amazing. Even aside from his race, most people hadn't even heard of him before 2004. People like name brands, but he was an unknown until just a few years ago and his surname sounds like our most reviled terrorist. Folks just love him anyway. It's almost enough to make one wonder if he happens to own a satellite network transmitting drumbeats into our heads...