Baaaahhh....

[grinnellian2001]

This actually surprised me:

87% Chris Dodd
85% Barack Obama
83% John Edwards
83% Hillary Clinton
79% Mike Gravel
78% Dennis Kucinich
78% Joe Biden
71% Bill Richardson
46% Rudy Giuliani
34% John McCain
25% Mike Huckabee
23% Mitt Romney
22% Tom Tancredo
16% Ron Paul
15% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Comments

[antoniseb]

What surprised you? There are many such quizzes, and they all gave me varying results.

[grinnellian2001]

I've never even considered Chris Dodd and I always thought I matched more strongly with Kucinich than any of the mainstream candidates. It's not exactly rocket science, though, and my top 7 candidates are all within 10 percentage points of each other on that survey.

[antoniseb]

I don't know your politics that well, but I'd suspect that Kucinich's pro-union, and anti-free-trade positions might be the difference. Like you say, you were very close to the same percentage for most of the Democrats, so the selection of Dodd at the top could be well-within the error-bars of the test.

I was thinking that Edwards or Richardson most closely matched me, but Edwards is a little to the right of me on family values and religion. This particular quiz matched me with Dodd also.

[antoniseb]

Hmm... possibly. I answered the union and free trade questions pretty middle of the road (I used to work for the AFL-CIO and grew up in Detroit, so I'm probably more pro-union than most people my age).

I find the mainstream candidates wishy-washy on some of the social issues that matter to me. I'm strongly pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-universal health care, pro-income tax, and pro-stem cell research.