Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Who is the presidential candidate whose views most closely align to yours?
This is really fascinating – if this tool accurately reflects the candidates’ actual views (so that’s a BIG question mark about this little application).
But suspending my cynicism for just a moment and allowing that this tool does accurately represent the candidates’ views on these political issues, your responses to this is an 11-question survey supposedly will list in descending order which candidates for president most closely match your views on 11 topics, and in theory who you would most want to be in the Oval Office. You also get to indicate how important each of these 11 issues is. Sure, there are all sorts of intangibles like “experience” and “leadership” ability, etc., but heck, let’s not over-complicate this thing. It’s just a fun little tool.
My closest matching candidate? Joe Biden, followed closely by Bill Richardson and Denis Kucinich. I guess I am more liberal than even I realized.
The candidates least in alignment with my views: Fred Thompson, Jim Gilmore and Duncan Hunter (hey, who the hell is this guy? --- Fred Thompson, that is) Oh God, please not another actor in the white house! Pleeeeeease!!!!!
Fascinating little application. Try it out yourself and let me know if you discover any surprises.
Here is the link to this very quick survey: http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
tj
Biden for President!!! (Hey, it’s what the survey told me to say!!)
