Not what I expected.

[vernard]

Democrat is what I expected. but THESE Democrats? WTF?

75% Bill Richardson
65% Chris Dodd
63% Barack Obama
63% John Edwards
61% Hillary Clinton
60% Joe Biden
60% Mike Gravel
56% Dennis Kucinich
49% Tom Tancredo
47% Mitt Romney
44% Rudy Giuliani
42% Fred Thompson
41% Ron Paul
37% John McCain
34% Mike Huckabee

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Comments

[wiggyfish.livejournal.com]

I fiddled with it a little, since a good number of the questions are simplified more than seems right or reasonable.

Iriginally I got this.  I thought the clean split was weird since I had assigned moderate importance to some "righty" opinions like gun rights.


66% Dodd

63% Richardson

58% Clinton

57% Gravel

57% Obama

57% Edwards

54% Huckabee

50% Giuliani

50% Kucinich

49% Biden

47% Paul

47% McCain

46% Tancredo

35% Romney

34% Thompson

Then I lowered the importance of Roe v Wade, increased the importance of having an exit plan, and swapped my immigration answer (since both were wrong anyway) and ended up with this:


62% Dodd

61% Tancredo

59% Paul

57% Richardson

57% Huckabee

53% Clinton

52% Giuliani

52% Edwards

52% Obama

50% Gravel

49% Romney

49% McCain

48% Thompson

44% Biden

43% Kucinich

I was surprised that a quiz with so many ham-fisted choices (citizenship or deportation, and that's it?) would actually dedicate a button to "Equal rights! Marriage for nobody!" That IS my favorite option, but I never hear it mentioned in the news media.

All in all, it's a stupid blog widget, meant for discussion rather than insight. I do like that it encourages random web users to think about the candidates along a continuum, rather than latch onto a single issue and/or lose interest in the race if their guy loses the primaries.