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CANDIDATE QUIZ

James Joyner
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I took the SelectSmart.com 2004 AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SELECTOR quiz, which seems reasonable enough in terms of the choices offered, and got some rather interesting results.

1. Bush, George W. – US President (100%)
2. Libertarian Candidate (81%)
3. Lieberman Senator Joe CT – Democrat (58%)
4. Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat (57%)
5. Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH – Democrat (52%)
6. Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO – Democrat (48%)
7. Edwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat (45%)
8. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat (43%)
9. Phillips, Howard – Constitution – (40%)
10. Sharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat – (30%)
11. Graham, Senator Bob, FL – Democrat – (24%)
12. Moseley-Braun, Fmr Senator Carol IL -Democrat (8%)
13. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. – Democrat (-8%)

The first three strike me as plausible as to the preferences although not the percentages; I know I disagree with President Bush on several of the issues polled. But I’m very perplexed that Kerry and Kucinich are ranked higher than Gephardt or Graham. Indeed, Graham ranks below Al Sharpton on this listing, which is patently absurd. I think I’d prefer a randomly selected death row inmate to Sharpton.

(Hat tips: John Lemon and CSW)

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9 responses to “CANDIDATE QUIZ”

  1. John Lemon Avatar
    John Lemon

    I think it was your unending support for a Department of Peace that ranked you high with Kucinich. The really scary thing is that you didn’t get a “negative” number for LaRouche, as most people have been!

  2. Kristopher Avatar
    Kristopher

    The 100% indicates that President Bush most closely matches your beliefs. Then each candidate is measured based on that standard. It doesn’t mean you agree with him 100%.

  3. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    Interesting. A weird definition of 100% 🙂

  4. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    And my LaRouche score WAS minus eight; I just erased the minus sign when I was editing the code for the post. Which, actually, is rather odd–how you can be minus agreement I don’t get.

  5. Chris Lawrence Avatar
    Chris Lawrence

    Seems deeply buggy to me. I can buy the highest match at 100% (though I seriously doubt I’d agree 100% with the eventual Libertarian nominee, since he’ll undoubtably be anti-war), but I can’t see a negative percentage agreement.

    Though, if it were possible with anyone, it would have to be LaRouche.

  6. Xrlq Avatar
    Xrlq

    I got the -8% match with LaRouche, too. Maybe it just means that we disagree with him on 92% of the issues, and really, really, double-dog disagree with him on the other 8%.

  7. Daniel Morris Avatar
    Daniel Morris

    Maybe it means with disagree with LaRouche so intensely, that on 8% of the issues, we go right through the other side and end up agreeing with him, but for completely different reasons!

    Or the whole thing’s just whacked. You decide.

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