Who’s your candidate?
One organization’s interview to find out who you should vote for…
These things are always fun, right? And especially when we’ve got this many candidates they can actually be useful, because we don’t always know that much about the different candidates.
According to the quiz, I should be excited about Chris Dodd, who I must admit I know practically nothing about (but, I live in Indiana, where primaries don’t matter, so why should I expect to know anything about him? (Are we all sick of the Primary status quo, or is it just me (and my parents)?)). Barack and Hillary tie for second place, with Joe Biden close behind them. Fascinating. Regardless of any libertarian leanings I may have, I found it interesting that all of the Democrats ranked higher for me than all of the Republicans. And all of this is perhaps especially interesting considering that I wasn’t at all confident about my answers on this survey. To take the most simple example, I had a terrible time answering the Iraq question. None of the choices were anything like “Well, I felt strongly that we shouldn’t have gotten into this mess, but now that we’re 4.5 years into the mess, I don’t know how the hell to get us out of it. But it sure is a terrible mess!”
Anyway, I’d be very interested to hear anyone else’s results, if you care to take the time (2-3 minutes).
I watched the Republican CNN/You Tube debate http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate today, which was my first real exposure to any of the Republican candidates. It was helpful to have Wikipedia’s rundown of the candidate’s names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_presidential_candidates,_2008 . Knowing your new libertarian leanings, I was wondering how you lined up with Ron Paul. What do you think of him? How did the quiz say that you matched up? If you didn’t match up with him, what issues don’t you agree on, and do you think it’s reflective of ways you disagree with libertarians, ways he disagrees with libertarians, or something else?
Comment by Xie — Saturday, 2007-12-01 @ 7:18 pm
Chris Dodd was #1 for me too. Then a Gravel/Kucinich tie, then a Biden/Clinton/Obama tie. Interesting.
Comment by Xie — Saturday, 2007-12-01 @ 7:25 pm
Clinton and Obama tied in first with 46.
Bill Richardson next with 44 and Kucinich with 43.
All Dems ahead of Repubs as well.
Comment by Dan — Saturday, 2007-12-01 @ 10:52 pm
Romney 44; Hunter 40;(who’s he?) Thompson 35;Giuliani 35; Biden 32; Then a Democrat, Obama.
Guess that tells me something.
Comment by Donna — Sunday, 2007-12-02 @ 1:43 pm
Thanks for the link to the Republican debate, xie. No, Ron Paul didn’t score high for me, as I recall he was in the middle of the Republicans. I think that points a bit to the sort of “main stream” nature of the questions. Ask simple multiple choice questions about current issues, and Ron Paul probably looks somewhat average. But ask about the philosophy he would use to make the decisions that might shape what the issues of the future would be, and he looks much more like the maverick that he is. I could say a lot about Mr. Paul, even though I’m no expert on him. Maybe I should write a separate post about that.
Mom (Donna), Hunter is not really on my radar screen either. Biden is the first Dem on your list, though.
Comment by David — Monday, 2007-12-03 @ 5:42 pm
I got Chris Dodd first, too, followed by a tie between John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich, and then Bill Richardson beat out a tie between Obama and Hillary, which surprised me.
It’s kind of interesting to see the differences between the choices on things like Iraq or immigration. I agree with you, David - none of the choices really resonate with me, but I think it’s because no one is really sure what will happen with those issues so they are just trying to sound on top of it and get us to perk up our ears when we hear buzzwords like “clear timeline” or “path to citizenship”.
Learning to talk the talk is important, but who does everybody here think is most likely to stand behind it? That’s the quiz we need next, if we’re playing “Find your candidate in 12 steps or less.” :)
Comment by Kynthia — Wednesday, 2007-12-05 @ 4:25 pm