A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Yet another presidential candidate quiz

This one comes via the Lutheran Zephyr. The quiz ranks your candidate preferences based on your agreement on 11 issues: Iraq, Stem-Cell Research, Abortion, Social Security, the Line-Item Veto, Immigration, Energy, Marriage, the Death Penalty, Taxes, and Health Care.

Here are my rankings:

Dennis Kucinich – 40
Ron Paul – 38
Mike Gravel – 30
Chris Dodd – 30
Bill Richardson – 28
Barack Obama – 23
Hillary Clinton – 23
John Edwards – 23
John McCain – 18
Sam Brownback – 17
Mike Huckabee – 15
Joe Biden – 15
Rudy Giuliani – 15
Fred Thompson – 10
Tom Tancredo – 10
Duncan Hunter – 10
Jim Gilmore – 5

No big surprises here; a little dishearting that no one whom I agree with more than 25% of the time appears to stand a chance of being nominated! Also, based on this it’s hard to believe that I was a registered Republican as recently as five years ago. Did I leave the GOP or did it leave me?

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6 responses to “Yet another presidential candidate quiz”

  1. gaius sempronius gracchus

    And Romney?

    How on earth did you get DK first and RP second?

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  2. Lee

    Weird, for some reason Romney didn’t show up. Maybe that means I agree with him 0% of the time? 🙂

    The quiz tells me that I agree with DK on Iraq, immigration, taxes, health care, Social Security, line-item veto, marriage, and the death penalty and disagree on stem-cell research, abortion, and energy.

    Meanwhile, I supposedly agree with RP on Iraq, stem-cell research, abortion, Social Security, line-item veto, energy, marriage, and the death penalty and disagree on immigration, taxes and health care.

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  3. Gaius Sempronius Gracchus

    Something is wrong in testland. Who thinks Ron Paul and DK agree with each other on Social Security?

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  4. Lee

    I think you must be right. Though I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that RP opposes Cato-style fake “privatization” schemes.

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  5. Mary

    Thanks for the link! DK was my #1 guy too (at 58% — we disagree on energy). It’s a good thing, since we’ve already had his bumper sticker plastered on our car for months… but I took a different version of the quiz at http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/, and in that one Richardson was my main man (though all the percentages were much lower).

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  6. Lee

    Mary – good to hear from you! I didn’t even realize you had a blog.

    I like BR not least because of his position on the war and because he’s just schlubby enough that people would have a hard time taking him seriously as a Maximum Leader.

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