President 2008

[lildog]

http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch/senate2006.asp?quiz=Senate

I found the above quiz which aligns you with the presidential candidate for 2008 whom you best agree with (based on their twenty so questions).

Based on my answers I'm most in line with Duncan Hunter and least in line with Dennis Kucinich.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I got a little shook up when I saw Kerry at the top. Then I realized he came up 40% as did Kucinch & Ron Paul and they were in alph order, Followed by a bunch at 38%, and a bunch at 33%.  I think the computer just didn't know what to do with me

[Tyler Stearns]

Most - Chuck Hagel

Least - John Edwards

On theagitator.com today he said he would support a Paul/Hagel or Hagel/Paul ticket for 2008.  I personally think that would be great.  Two anti-war Republicans that aren't afraid to challenge the GOP status quo.

[Ruger Mason]

That's a terrible quiz; a lot of typical left vs. right questions, some of which are unclear.  "Should churches be allowed to provide welfare?"  Exactly what do they mean by that?  Of course, churches should be "allowed" to provide whatever charity they want, that's one of their core missions.  Or do they mean that churches should be "allowed" to act as official proxies for government redistribution of wealth?

A statist dimwit obviously wrote that quiz.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Yeah!.  How the Hell could you not agree with Vouchers and not look like a lib?

[Dreepa]

The media keeps talking up Hagel.... so I am questionable on him.... what has he done beside say he is against the war .... now.

Paul has been standing up for a long time.

[lildog]

That's a terrible quiz; a lot of typical left vs. right questions, some of which are unclear.  "Should churches be allowed to provide welfare?"  Exactly what do they mean by that?  Of course, churches should be "allowed" to provide whatever charity they want, that's one of their core missions.  Or do they mean that churches should be "allowed" to act as official proxies for government redistribution of wealth?

A statist dimwit obviously wrote that quiz.

Any quiz of that nature will be fundamentally flawed in nature because of the fact it cannot be opened ended questions.

For instance, abortion was very black and white in the question but in reality I don't see it that way.  I believe that somewhere along the way between sex and birth of the baby, what is inside the woman becomes a human life.  And because we are all guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that life should be protected and not be considered something that can be discarded any more then a 3 year old child can be discarded.  The question is when does it become life.

Since I don't know the answer I am not anti abortion but I definitely am against late term abortions... so how exactly does one answer the question "abortion is a womans right" as either support or oppose?

So unless you were to create a quiz listing every bill that came up or every issue any candidate every faced during his or her past terms in office, you really do have to come up with generic questions which in most cases do break it down to a right vs left stance.

[slim]

I tried the quiz and got the following error

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0113'

Script timed out

/VoteMatch/results2006.asp

The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeout or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools.



I guess there is no one that matches me

[Atlas]

Has Hagel come out against the Patriot Act?

[Chester Lapointe]

I took it and got Bill Frist as my first choice. :-P

[Rocketman]

I tried the quiz and got the following error

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0113'

Script timed out

/VoteMatch/results2006.asp

The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeout or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools.



I guess there is no one that matches me

Heh, me too, but now it works.

First Choice: Ron Paul (54% economic, 50% social)
Second Choice: Dennis Kucinich (25% economic, 81% social)

followed by the motley crew of Sharpton, Hagel, and Feingold.   

[Atlas]

I got Ron Paul and 2ndly Tom Tancredo. I thought that some questions pinned people into the conservative/liberal dichotomy. (Either welfare should be ran by the gov or block grants should be given to faith-based organizations) among others.

[earthhaven]

I got Kerry at 40% followed by Ron Paul and others wit Mitt Romney last at a whopping 12%.

The politcal philosophy quiz seems to be working. It scored me as a "Hard-Core Libertarian."

[cathleeninnh]

I checked some of the detailed comparisons of my response to the candidate and found that I had positions that were not even asked.

???

Cathleen

[slim]

OK I got Ron Paul at a total of 45% followed by Hagle and a 2 way tie for last Wesley Clark and Al Gore (who invented the internet)