Select a Candidate for 2008
 

The following is an interesting exercise.... You answer a few questions then click the "find your candidate button" and the program selects the candidate who's position on the issues is most like your own... You may be surprised at what you find....... Click the link below....

http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460


Now I just need to figure out who Chris Dodd is. :)

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Dennis Kucinich -- no surprise there, me thinks!

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I got Chris Dodd too. Perfect match. There again, I have a personal policy of not voting in a country I'm not living in, so I won't be getting my postal vote or vote by proxy sorted out. :)

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Wow, a tie with 52 pts between Hillary and Barack, with Chris Dodd (who?) a close thurd and John Edwards not far behind.

I'd never vote for Hillary Clinton.

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Chris Dodd appears to be a US Senator from Connecticut. A quick google search will turn up a lot of info - served in the Peace Corps and Army Reserves before turning to public service.

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I got Chris Dodd too, with Kucinich and Hillary 2nd and 3rd

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1. Dodd
2. Obama/Clinton
4. Edwards

Yes, informative.

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Won't divulge my results as the quiz is obviously fatally flawed :blink:
But it was interesting that my response to the following question was contrary to the stance of several candidates - should anyone who is against this policy be allowed to live, let alone stand for election...

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That is so ironic ... I only match Democrats

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Hmm - don't know about anyone else, but I'm somewhat suspicious of this survey.

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Excellent news!

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1 Romney
2 Guiliani
3 Paul



I think I messed up

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Well - it depends. In my class on Thursday our professor told us that it takes more than a gallon of gas to produce a gallon of ethanol. If that's true (and if that's not just due to short term inefficiency) then there certainly seem to be problems with that solution! That being said, this doesn't mean that other biofuels shouldn't be explored.

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1. Edwards/Richardson tied
2. Dennis Kucinich
3. Obama/Clinton tied

This election will be my first opportunity to vote since living here.
I'm sure that the quiz is not meant to be taken completely serious as the questions and options are limited, doubt you can pick a candidate based on only 5 or 6 questions.
But what a concept it would be to pick a president based on issues rather than millions of dollars put into dirty smear campaigns and PR

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I got Chris Dodd 1st but disagreed with him on Iraq and marriage.
Dennis Kucinich 2nd
and Obama 3rd

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was it Hillary? :rofl:

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I tied Guiliani and Biden :blink:

John Edwards was third.


:huh:

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I heard a segment on Friday on NPR about Guiliani, a former staunch advocate of gun control while mayor of NYC, he was giving a speech to the NRA about 2nd amendment rights.
These guys have no shame......... or principles that can't be bought for the right price.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=14596793

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=14620495

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Kucinich and Richardson at 49
Clinton and Obama at 46
Mike Gravel at 45

:o erm...I know Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson don't stand a chance at getting the Democratic nomination.

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Edwards
Clinton
Obama

:confused:

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Kucinich
Dodd
Gravel

biofuels -- we should definitely expand research, but production? As Kathy pointed out, they currently aren't petroleum saving. They will drive up the cost of livestock feed and other products, so they aren't a panacea, but they are a starting point.

more like require everyone to drive a 30 mpg+ vehicle.... ahem....

immigration -- enforce the existing laws and send employers to jail. Hmmm, that wasn't an option. This is a major hot button for me, but not because I blame the immigrants, I blame those who've exploited them.

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Jeez,my TOP results were only 26 point match. I consider myself a moderate and an Independant.

This does not bode well for me in 2008. :unsure:

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Hang on Big Davy G - I think we ALL agree we need to sort out the oil crisis, but America's not going about the biofuel business the right way. Corn - which is the basis of their research - is fatally flawed because it has a one-to-one conversion ratio (uses as much energy to make it as it gives out) and you'd need to convert four Americas into corn fields to produce enough to fuel america.

Sugar based biofuel is likely - so lets pour our gas money into the carribbean instead of the middle east and finally let them get rich off something other than tourism.

So being against federally funded biofuel ISN'T a bad thing - it doesn't mean you're against biofuel entirely - just the cackhanded US version of it.

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I got Joe Biden, beating a joint second of Hillary!, Obama and John Edwards.

Although I don't particularly like Biden as a person (or his public persona, never actually met him)

This will be the first US election where I can vote, having got citizenship 2 months ago. Oh, and I'm registerd as Unaffiliated.

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I was thinking the same thing about people that got scores in the 40's and 50's. My top few candidates were only 3 our 4 points difference, and my top 2 guys got 29 points each. One of the Republicans even got 17 points :unsure:

Congratulations. I just got mine a week ago. I registered unaffiliated too

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Well my take was that anything that begins to take the US down that path can only be a good thing, despite the many potential short-term inefficiencies and issues.

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well i got hilary and obama tied with 45

apparently I disagree with them on taxes and iraq

why can't we have a nice candidate who wants to cut taxes and leave Iraq asap?

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It's use of the taxes they do get really.

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... but it doesn't mean the test taker's going to vote according to the results.:)

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Kucinich at my top got 64 points; Dodd 62; Gravel 59. I'll bet the difference is "how strongly" you feel about each issue; I tend to feel fairly strongly and indicated that.

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Maybe so. I think I felt really strongly about a couple of issues, but the questions were so very broad and general that I can only feel strongly if I know specific details.

I have mixed feelings about my opportunity to vote, in part I felt swept up in the patriotism that went with the citizenship ceremony, how lucky we are to vote in a 'free' country. Then the cynic in me takes over when I think of speaking circuits, book deals, the last election farce and the numerous scandals these arseholes ( politicians) seem to get caught in on an almost weekly basis.

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They appeal to those who will vote, and sadly so few do. Too many take that right for granted.

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I knew it - Kucinich also. Dennis is the closest thing to a genuine lefty in Congress. The rest are essentially centrists.

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Hmmm. Got interesting results.

A tie at 42 for both Obama and Clinton (could this be a Prez and Vice Prez pairing?).

Then Edwards and Dodd both tied at 37.

I didn't actually answer the question on immigration because there was no answer that was close enough about how I feel on the topic.

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Hmm..it appears that only one candidate agrees with me on Iraq, and that's Sam Brownback (whoever the heck he is). And only one of them agrees with me on Immigration, Tom Tancredo - never heard of him either. Why are all of the candidates so damn afraid of upholding the existing immigration laws & fining those that break it??

1. Biden @ 38 pts
2. Clinton/Obama @ 34 pts
3. Kucinich/Dodd/Edwards/Guliani @ 31 pts

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Brownback and Tancredo? :ohmy: Now that's straying into some real wingnut territory.

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Are they? I honestly don't know anything about either of them. I don't think of myself as a nut; I feel I'm more of a centrist myself. But on immigration, I feel pretty strongly that anyone here illegally should get sent back home, employers fined, and no amnesty. If that makes me crazy, so be it. Apparently there are no democrats that agree.

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Dunno about crazy. But I certainly hope you're not employed in logistics. Even Stalin would have found such numbers difficult to deal with.

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Any idea on how to go about doing that? Honestly, I have no idea how it could be accomplished. I have to agree with Fat Brit. The logistics would be unbelievable.

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After doing some research Kucinich is not for me. I like his proper universal healthcare plan and many of his gun control plans, but there are too many things that really piss me off... taxes and Reauthorize the ban on the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.

not sure if this a wording thing here, but only having bolt action or lever firearms would be a bit crap. I'm all for his other gun control ideals however....