Presidential Candidate Meme!

[topaz]

These results appear to match what I figured out elsewhere:

81% Mike Gravel
76% Dennis Kucinich
71% Bill Richardson
69% Chris Dodd
68% Barack Obama
67% Joe Biden
66% John Edwards
64% Hillary Clinton
46% Ron Paul
40% Rudy Giuliani
38% John McCain
33% Mike Huckabee
30% Mitt Romney
22% Tom Tancredo
22% Fred Thompson

I.e. the candidates who are a closest match for my actual political views are Gravel and Kucinich; Obama is my favorite among the real Dem candidates; Hillary is at the back of the pack; but really there's not a lot of ground separating them.

I would be fine with pretty much any of the Dems taking the nomination, so by the time Super Tuesday runs around I intend to vote my conscience and put down Gravel or Kucinich if either of them are still in the running at that point.

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Comments

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Now try glassbooth.org... much better and less leading phrasing.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- that just confirmed my determination to vote for Gravel, should he last so long :)

Of the "top-tier" Democratic candidates, Obama and Clinton had identical similarity scores with me, but Obama had two "similar"s where Clinton had a "very similar" and a "different". I'll vote for Obama if pressed, as I'd planned to anyway. (Edwards is "very different" from me on drug policy, even if I weren't opposed to him for other reasons.)

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I heard somewhere that Gravel gets a disproportionate share of top matches on most political quizzes.

He's mine too on most of them, which seems fine with me, since he is the only candidate in either party who I don't actively disapprove of (my pet issue is transparency, which he has an excellent record on). On this quiz he is followed by Richardson (about whom I know nothing whatsoever) and Paul (who annoys me by pretending to be a libertarian when he's not even close as far as I'm concerned). That link above, glassbooth.org, give me Gravel, Kucinich (who I agree with on many issues but question the overall sanity of), Paul...

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I heard somewhere that Gravel gets a disproportionate share of top matches on most political quizzes.

Probably because he's the sanest candidate nobody ever heard of?

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Probably because he's the sanest candidate nobody ever heard of?

Maybe! I mean, I happen to like him best, and I'm a registered Libertarian.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

NOOOO YOU FOOL YOU'RE THROWING YOUR VOTE AWAY

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of Democratic coalition-building, I offer instead to sell you my vote! (http://www.votepair.org/)