Which Pres. candidate most closely shares your views on the issues
 

Hi guys!

This is pretty cool. There's 30 or so questions on a number of different issues. You answer the questions and the program compares your answers with those of the candidates.

http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main

Take Care All!
SmileWavy

My results:

1. Bush
2. Lieberman
3. Edwards
4. Kerry
5. Sharpton!!!!?????

I had:

1. Kerry
2. Dean
3. Kucinich
4. Clark
5. Sharpton

Bush was last on my list with 24% ... :)

1) Kucinich
2) Sharpton !!!?!???
3) Dean
4) Kerry
5) Clark

Bush was last on my list with 13%

It's amazing how the last question can completely shuffle your "ranking".

Social Issues
Crime/Education
Security and International Policy
Benefit Programs
The Economy/Environment

Often one cadidate focusses his rhetoric on only one of these issues, and your prioritization of this list results in a huge impact to how the candidates are ranked.

1)Bush
2)Lieberman
3)Edwards
4)Kerry
5)Clark

I left "no opinion" on a lot, because I felt the question wasn't clear enough. Example "Allow lawsuits against gun manufacturers". Now, certianly if you buy a gun and it blows up in your hand when you use it, I think you should be able to sue. If a gun is sold and is used to kill someone, that's not the manufacturer's problem, its the person who killed someone! So the question was incomplete. There were a few others like this.

I'm not a US Citizen (I don't even get to play one on TV ;) ) and I don't really know jack about who's standing and for what values, this year but here are an outsider's results:

1) Edwards
2) Lieberman
3) Kerry
4) Bush
5) Clark

It seems Bush is the only Republican candidate in my entire "selected sample" of 8 possible matches. :confused: I guess that tells me something.

Kucinich 100%
Kerry 97%
Sharpton 94%
Dean 91%
Clark 89%
Edwards 82%

I think lumping crime and education together skews the results.

I agree...

It tells you that he is the only Republican running.;)

Not that this should suprise anyone:

Bush (100%) Followed by
Lieberman (64%)
Clark (57%)
Edwards (56%)
Kerry (55%)

Tom

Emcon5, you and I have different views of how a country should be run... :D

I was surprised.

1) Bush 100%
2) Lieberman 96%
3) Edwards 93%
4) Kerry 92%
5) Clark 84%

Bush 100%. That's crazy!!! :)

I don't see how they got 100% for me. They list how GWB would answer their questions, and while some are the same, a lot aren't. Some are opposite.

Interestingly, if you just click through leaving everything as "no opinion" it comes back as 100% for all of them.

Tom

Nothing else to add, I just had to post this picture:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1074899351.jpg

:D

Tom

wow! I just took "the test". the 'puter began to smoke and the website kicked back Joseph Stalin!! Holy Schmoly!! ya think maybe I'm just a bit uptight today??


George W. as #1 :rolleyes:

If I only had photoshop, the spots I could do of Bush...

LMAO!

get paintshop pro. it's free ;)

1. Kerry 100%
2. Clark 93%
3. Edwards 90%
4. Lieberman 89%
5. "The Screamer" 87%

Bush was last (77%), though I've picked him to win in Vegas. :D

The questions are too broad, but then look who's running...

http://www.bushin30seconds.com/

Love that site... :D ;) :cool:

Bush 100%
Lieberman 67&
Edwards 60%
Kerry 53%
Clark 53%

... matches what I thought.... of course my national defense was weighted high...

Dean, that M'f'cker .... placed #4 so he gives me the finger ....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1074912942.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1074914301.jpg

;)

Tom

Bush 100%
Lieberman 52%
Edwards 52%
Dean 41%
Clark 39%
I left the last section where it asks for prioritizing at no opinion so it wouldn't skew the numbers.

No surprise to me.
When I was young my father explained to me his opinion of the differences between a republican and a democrat:

A democrat is someone who wants the government to take something away from others and give it to them even though they didn't earn it solely because the want it or need it.

A republican says don't give me anything I didn't earn, just let me keep what I did.

That should stir the flames :)

Or in the words of Bill Clinton, "If you want to live like a Republican, you'd better vote Democrat!" :D

(Actually, it was Harry Truman who said it originally. Clinton credited him when he said this). :cool:

A democrat is a republican who just spent the night in jail.

A republican is a democrat who was just mugged.

;)

Hey that's pretty good. At the risk of complicating it too much, I would just change it to:

A democrat is someone who wants the government to take something away from others and give 80% of it to them, even though they didn't earn it, solely because they want it or need it.

The government gets to keep the other 20%, giving it an incentive to take even more the next time around.

A republican says don't give me anything I didn't earn, just let me keep what I did.

Haha, Bush 48%. The only reason he probably got that much is because I suspect we both agree on abortion/religion.

I gotta say - I always laugh when I look at you guys debating how "democrat = socialist". It's not even close! Democrat = centre left, or maybe centre.

Cam: are you sure you're not American? Or sending emails from L.A. or something? You seem to have a better handle on all this than we have...

Almost the same as my list.

Kucinich
Sharpton (!)
Kerry
Dean
Clark

Dubya in last with 12 percent.

no, there are quite a few Democrats here that are socialist enough to make Karl Marx look moderate

We have another whole party for those guys (actually, 2 parties). I guess my point is that it isn't the Democrat party's, err, party line.

aha. well, the Democrats don't enjoy that privilege here, just as the Republicans don't either. if there were another party here for elements of the extreme left, then it would only be appropriate to have one available for those with a hard-right bent. I assume that the other party that you speak of is meant for just that purpose?