Heres who you should vote for in 2008

Fascinating. It says Tommy Thompson, who isn't running and I don't agree with most of the time. I will never vote for a religious-only conservative ever again.
 
I got edwards.

But, I didn't like the quiz, and left some questions unanswered with the "no opinion" option. Some of the questions were far to nebulous and ill-defined
 
Yes I think it is flawed also , just too simplistic.

But it is interesting and gets people thinking about who really fits their opinions.
 
Desh said:
Yes I think it is flawed also , just too simplistic.

But it is interesting and gets people thinking about who really fits their opinions.
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Yeah: "Should we teach family values in school?" What the heck does that mean?
 
Yeah, definitely too vague. It put me with Kucinich, but after reading Edwards responses (and understanding how the questions were intended to be interpreted) I would definitely support Edwards first.
 
Kucinich - 75% (Only 75%? Heck, I'd have guessed 90%)
Dodd - 68%
Clinton - 68% (They're obviously taking her positions at face value)
Obama - 63%
Biden - 63%
Gravel - 60%
Edwards - 58%
Richardson - 33%
Ron Paul - 33%
 
I think the dem pack is pretty good myself ,I would support most of them if they got the top nod with ease.

The R candidates on the ohter hand stink.

Guli is a total dirt bag.

How do you think the media would treat a Dem who had dumped wives like they were cell phone servers leaving his kids to find it out in the news?

I tell you any Dem with his record wouldnt even think about running.
 
OrnotBitwise said:
Kucinich - 75% (Only 75%? Heck, I'd have guessed 90%)
Dodd - 68%
Clinton - 68% (They're obviously taking her positions at face value)
Obama - 63%
Biden - 63%
Gravel - 60%
Edwards - 58%
Richardson - 33%
Ron Paul - 33%
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That's almost EXACTLY what mine said. However, I'm not a huge fan of Clinton or Obama, and Gravel is a nutjob (even though he ranks above my #1 choice candidate).

The quiz doesn't weight the issues adequately. For instance, it asks about public funding of healthcare but doesn't specify what that means. Does that mean universal healthcare for all Americans ala every other industrialized country in the world, or does that mean expanding medicare to include more elderly and young people? Does it mean throwing money at pharmaceutical companies or negotiating for lower drug prices? Those are big differences between the candidates that this quiz ignores.

It also ignores important differences between other issues like gun ownership, abortion, and taxation (since it only asks about lowering taxes on the wealthy and ignores things like getting rid of income taxes, tax credits for the poor, what constitutes poverty, etc).

This quiz is as retarded as calling all US currency counterfeit.
 
ib1yysguy said:
That's almost EXACTLY what mine said. However, I'm not a huge fan of Clinton or Obama, and Gravel is a nutjob (even though he ranks above my #1 choice candidate).

The quiz doesn't weight the issues adequately. For instance, it asks about public funding of healthcare but doesn't specify what that means. Does that mean universal healthcare for all Americans ala every other industrialized country in the world, or does that mean expanding medicare to include more elderly and young people? Does it mean throwing money at pharmaceutical companies or negotiating for lower drug prices? Those are big differences between the candidates that this quiz ignores.

It also ignores important differences between other issues like gun ownership, abortion, and taxation (since it only asks about lowering taxes on the wealthy and ignores things like getting rid of income taxes, tax credits for the poor, what constitutes poverty, etc).

This quiz is as retarded as calling all US currency counterfeit.
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Oh, you're absolutely right. It should probably have a "for entertainment purposes only" disclaimer on it. Still, I think they've done a reasonably good job of identifying the sensitive, "hot button" issues on both sides.
 
I just dislike the metric they're using to measure the "hot button" issues. Do you strongly support, support, have no opinion, oppose, or strongly oppose? Do I strongly oppose or just oppose teacher-led prayer in school? Well, I don't know. Someone with exactly the same view may choose something entirely different. There was one question that I didn't answer correctly. I discovered this after reading how the candidates interpreted it and I realized that my answer was not reflective of my opinion.
 
ib1yysguy said:
I just dislike the metric they're using to measure the "hot button" issues. Do you strongly support, support, have no opinion, oppose, or strongly oppose? Do I strongly oppose or just oppose teacher-led prayer in school? Well, I don't know. Someone with exactly the same view may choose something entirely different. There was one question that I didn't answer correctly. I discovered this after reading how the candidates interpreted it and I realized that my answer was not reflective of my opinion.
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True, but I think what they wanted to get at was our reflexive, emotional responses. Do I strongly support, support, have no opinion about, oppose or strongly oppose increasing federal funding for healthcare? Well, that's going to depend on the specific plan they put forth, obviously. Given those five choices, however, and having no further information, I'm inevitably going to choose "strongly support" because that particular issue is extremely important to me.
 
Thats also what I chose. But I could just have easily chosen "support" since the actual plan they're talking about is not defined.
 
I do not, for instance, strongly support Obama's position on healthcare. I was convinced I supported Edward's position, but I'm starting to wonder what exactly it is now. He said in the most recent debate that he supports universal healthcare for all Americans. I'm not sure that means what I hope it means.
 
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