Someday that ant will grow up to be President

[vovat]

Here are the results of a political quiz that a whole bunch of other people on my friends list did:

89% Barack Obama
87% John Edwards
86% Chris Dodd
85% Dennis Kucinich
85% Mike Gravel
84% Hillary Clinton
83% Bill Richardson
80% Joe Biden
43% Rudy Giuliani
31% John McCain
26% Mike Huckabee
25% Mitt Romney
23% Ron Paul
21% Tom Tancredo
15% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Kind of weird, since I usually get Kucinich at the top of these things. You never know exactly how these things work, though, and there are a lot of issues that are more complicated than brief online quizzes make them out to be. I didn't think either of the options on the gun control question really reflected my position on the issue, for instance. From what I've heard them say, Kucinich is the most reflective of my own positions, although I think Edwards might actually come closer than Obama. I haven't been watching many of the candidates' recent speeches, but bethje was talking about how Edwards has said more on economic disparity than the others, and I think that's one of the most important issues. Really, I could do with less "hey, America's great" speeches candidates on both parties. Still, I don't think there are any Democratic candidates I specifically DON'T want in the running, although I think Hillary is too far to the right on some things.

As far as the Republicans go, Giuliani always seems to be the one who's always at the top of the heap with these quiz results (which still places him below every Democrat), yet he's also the one who personally annoys me the most, so I was pleased by his rather pathetic showing in the New Hampshire primary. Of course, that's New Hampshire, and there's no telling how he'll fare in other states. If I had to choose a Republican candidate, I'd probably have to go with McCain. He's been guilty of some of the same sudden changes of position to appease far-right voters as Giuliani, but he has the major advantages of: 1) not constantly milking a national tragedy, and 2) at least appearing to be someone you could reason with, while Giuliani comes across as an irrational hothead. I appreciate Ron Paul's candor, but some of his libertarian beliefs are just too radical for my tastes. Huckabee's distaste for the separation of church and state doesn't sit too well with me, and as for Romney...sorry, but no, freedom doesn't require religion.

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[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

79% Bill Richardson
75% John McCain
67% John Edwards
67% Barack Obama
67% Mike Huckabee
65% Chris Dodd
65% Hillary Clinton
58% Mitt Romney
56% Tom Tancredo
53% Fred Thompson
51% Joe Biden
49% Rudy Giuliani
44% Mike Gravel
41% Ron Paul
37% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Dude, check out the rainbow! I am SO a political independent!

But yeah, some of the questions-- I think the gun control one was written by someone who shows their bias (as completely anti-gun) and doesn't completely understand the issue; but the one I had trouble with was the health care question, myself.

Well, I'm glad you posted this, because I didn't realize this was a different quiz than the last on this topic, and this one makes me feel better about the world since my highest score was higher than 13%.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

also, I believe the three names at the bottom of this list were my three TOP with the last quiz, so what does that tell you?

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Too bad your top candidate (well, according to that quiz, anyway) recently dropped out of the race. :P

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I've always kind of liked McCain.

Not that it matters, because as an independent I'm just stuck with whatever two people the people who actually belong to parties give me to choose from, which is definitely the suckiest thing about being an independent, because of course the people who actually belong to parties would never pick the people I'd prefer.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

That's why I think it might be a good idea to register with one of the major parties even if you don't really like them, just so you can have SOME input in the primaries. But then, I'm saying this as someone who is affiliated with a party, but keeps forgetting to vote in the primaries. Hopefully I'll remember this year.

Some states let independents choose which primary they want to vote in, or let Republicans vote in the Democratic primary and vice versa, but I've never lived in one of those.