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Old 07-12-2012, 12:33 PM
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Cool little political quiz. Who do you side with?

Most of my answers were under the "choose another stance"

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/11485227.png
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Old 07-12-2012, 01:31 PM
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Looks like spam to me.

Regardless, I side 87% with Obama, then Jill (never heard of her, is that the Green Party?), 69% Ron Paul, 58% Romney. None of that was particularly surprising to me.
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Old 07-12-2012, 01:49 PM
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Here's the actual quiz. I got 87% agreement with Gary Johnson. Not surprising since I'm a small-l libertarian, and that's what his political rhetoric is. He is a big-L Libertarian though, so I don't like the association. Don't know who Jill Stein is, that was my second, but these are all pretty broad questions that don't provide for the nuances of each issue, and I didn't feel like adding my own stance.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:11 PM
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88% with Jill "Who?" Stein, 82% with Obama, 70% Gary Johnson, 60% Ron Paul, 13% Mitt Romney.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:15 PM
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87% Green Party
84% Barack Obama
27% Mitt Romney

Sounds accurate to me.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:25 PM
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92% Barack Obama
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75% Michigan voters

68% American voters
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:25 PM
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I liked that you had to give two dimensions to each question. There are definitely things I strongly agree with the sentiment but they aren't that important in terms of who to vote for.

I was surprised by how high the Green and American Socialist candidate aligned with me.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:26 PM
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Barack Obama and Jill Stein.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:34 PM
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Jill Stein is the Green Party candidate for office and was endorsed by Chomsky.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:43 PM
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Jill Stein is the Green Party candidate for office and was endorsed by Chomsky.
That explains why nobody ever heard of her.
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:49 PM
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86% Gary Johnson
on domestic policy, foreign policy, healthcare, economic, and immigration issues.
75% Barack Obama
on social, science, environmental, and immigration issues.
75% Ron Paul
on domestic policy, foreign policy, healthcare, economic, and environmental issues.
66% Mitt Romney
on domestic policy, economic, healthcare, and environmental issues.
88% California Voters
on social, domestic policy, foreign policy, healthcare, economic, and immigration issues.
94% American Voters
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Old 07-12-2012, 02:57 PM
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I side with Barack Obama on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Candidates you side with...
88% Barack Obama
on foreign policy, economic, social, healthcare, environmental, and science issues.

84% Jill Stein
on foreign policy, immigration, social, healthcare, environmental, domestic policy, and science issues.

78% Stewart Alexander
on immigration, healthcare, social, environmental, and science issues.

43% Gary Johnson
on immigration and science issues.

24%Ron Paul
on foreign policy issues.

13% Jimmy McMillan
no major issues.

3% Mitt Romney
no major issues.

2% Virgil Goode
no major issues.

55% Missouri Voters
on environmental and science issues.

55% American Voters
on environmental and science issues.

Who you side with by party...
88% Democratic
84% Green
33% Libertarian
3% Republican
Who and what sort of mutant is Virgil Goode that I only match him on 2%?
Wait, I only match Romney on 3%? That's surprisingly low. I guess they went for maximizing contentious issues, which is fair.
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Old 07-12-2012, 04:00 PM
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87% Green Party, 84% Democrats, 13% Republicans.
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Old 07-12-2012, 04:47 PM
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80% Obama, 74% Stein, 54% Romney.

The Romney bit surprises the hell out of me. Says I agree with his domestic policy and domestic issues. I guess I'll have look into just what his stance on these are; wasn't aware they were anything other than the standard party line.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:08 PM
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80% Obama, 74% Stein, 54% Romney.

The Romney bit surprises the hell out of me. Says I agree with his domestic policy and domestic issues. I guess I'll have look into just what his stance on these are; wasn't aware they were anything other than the standard party line.
I agree with Romney on a lot of things around 50% of the time.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:12 PM
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Nothing surprising, my top 2 candidates were from the Green and socialist parties.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:16 PM
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87% who the hell is Jill Stein
83% Obama
79% who the hell is Stuart Alexander
27% Ron Paul (I need a shower)
4% Romney (where did I mess up?)
79% MI voters
72% US voters
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:25 PM
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I was surprised to see that I agree with 84% of american and pa voters.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:53 PM
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Ohh I love these little quizzes! I got Ron Paul 86%, Gary Johnson 82%, Jill Stein 78%, Barack Obama 72%, and Mitt Romney 68%. Oh wait there's more! Jimmy McMillan 60%, Virgil Goode 56%, and Stewart Alexander 52%. And now I'm off to google Virgil Goode and Stewart Alexander.
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Old 07-12-2012, 05:59 PM
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FWIW, here are my results:

Quote:
Candidates you side with...

81%
Barack Obama

on economic, social, science, immigration, and environmental issues.

70%
Jill Stein

on science, social, and foreign policy issues.

69%
Gary Johnson

on domestic policy, healthcare, and immigration issues.

63%
Mitt Romney

on domestic policy, healthcare, immigration, and environmental issues.

61%
Ron Paul

on domestic policy, healthcare, immigration, and environmental issues.

89%
New Mexico Voters

on social, domestic policy, science, foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, and environmental issues.

86%
American Voters

on social, domestic policy, science, foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, and environmental issues.
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Who you side with by party...

81% Democratic

70% Green

65% Libertarian

63% Republican
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Old 07-12-2012, 06:01 PM
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87% Green Party, 84% Democrats, 7% Republicans.


I think it is rigged, no way do I support Republicans That Much!
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Old 07-12-2012, 06:07 PM
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Obama 81%
Paul 80% (how are both of those possible ???)
Johnson 79%
Romney 56%
CA voters 64%
Americans 75%
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Old 07-12-2012, 06:08 PM
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Barack Obama and Jill Stein.
Yup, tied at 87%.

12% for Jackass Romney, ha!
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Old 07-12-2012, 06:18 PM
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I'm 84% Democratic and 97% Texan.

...wait, what??
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Old 07-12-2012, 06:26 PM
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My sub-scores are what is interesting:

I side the most with Mitt Romney on 97% of domestic policy issues.

I side the most with Barack Obama on 96% of social issues.

I side the most with Gary Johnson on 100% of healthcare issues.
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:49 AM
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Virgil Goode was a Blue Dog Democrat, apparently, pretty big on smoking and guns and not so much on abortion.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:04 AM
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Who the hell is Jill Stein?
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:15 AM
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And yet Ron Paul would never get my vote.


89% Ron Paul
on immigration, domestic policy, healthcare, economic, science, and foreign policy issues. more info

84% Jimmy McMillan
on social, domestic policy, immigration, economic, and foreign policy issues. more info

84% Gary Johnson
on domestic policy, healthcare, science, economic, and foreign policy issues. more info

76% Barack Obama
on social, science, and foreign policy issues. more info

70% Jill Stein
on social, foreign policy, and environmental issues. more info

63% Mitt Romney
on immigration, economic, domestic policy, and healthcare issues. more info

58% Virgil Goode
on economic, domestic policy, and immigration issues. more info

51% Stewart Alexander
on social and foreign policy issues. more info

91% Minnesota Voters
on social, domestic policy, foreign policy, economic, and immigration issues. More info

92% American Voters
on social, domestic policy, foreign policy, economic, and immigration issues. More info
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:17 AM
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It says I'm 95% in agreement with Barack Obama and 85% in agreement with Texas voters. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to be both of those at the same time.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:35 AM
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Huh. My top three, in order from high to low, are Jill Stein, Stewart Alexander, and Barack Obama.

Who's Stewart Alexander? (goes off to google)
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:36 AM
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95% Jill Stein/Green. I did not see that coming. I agreed more with Mitt Romney (and much more with Paul) than with Goode.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:55 AM
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I side the most with Obama (74%) and the Democrats (74%)

Last edited by Siam Sam; 07-13-2012 at 11:56 AM.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:06 PM
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Jill Stein 95%
Barack Obama 89%
Stewart Alexander 87%
Jimmy McMillan 65%
Gary Johnson 33%
Ron Paul 28%
Virgil Goode 3%
Mitt Romney 1%
Ohio voters 88%
American voters 88%

Question: how can Jimmy McMillan be running for president? The rent couldn't possibly be too damn high throughout the entire country!
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:21 PM
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96%-Mitt Romney
on immigration, healthcare, economic, social, domestic policy, foreign policy, and environmental issues.

93%-Ron Paul
on immigration, economic, healthcare, science, domestic policy, and environmental issues.

77%-Gary Johnson
on economic, healthcare, science, and domestic policy issues.

44%-Barack Obama
on science and environmental issues.

46%-California Voters
no major issues.

66%-American Voters
on economic, social, and environmental issues.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:54 PM
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Barack Obama 97%
Jill Stein 80%
Stewart Alexander 64% (who?)
Mitt Romney 46%
Ron Paul 39%

Illinois Voters 83%
American Voters 80%


80% with American voters? Obama is sure to win now!
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Old 07-13-2012, 05:50 PM
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88% Obama
83% Stein
79% Alexander
37% Paul
15% Romney
69% Oregon
63% American
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:22 PM
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Very unreliable

Gary Johnson 79%
Ron Paul 74%
Jill Stein 65%
Barack Obama 65%
Mitt Romney 63%
Virgil Goode 30%
Jimmy MacMillan 30%
Stewart Alexander 23%
California Voters 56%
American Voters 58%
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:35 PM
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Very unreliable
Why do you conclude it's unreliable, instead of concluding that you now have something to learn about the candidates near the top of your list?
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:44 PM
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I'm proud to say I side 89% with Barack Obama.
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:13 PM
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Obama - 92%
Alexander - 86%
Stein - 86 %
McMillan - 64%
Johnson - 44%
Paul - 23%
Goode - 6%
Romney - 4%
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:24 PM
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Why do you conclude it's unreliable, instead of concluding that you now have something to learn about the candidates near the top of your list?
Sorry, it'd probably be different if I had weighted the issues.
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Old 07-13-2012, 08:21 PM
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Barack Obama 94%
Jill Stein %85
Stewart Alexander 66%
Jimmy McMillan 24%
Gary Johnson 21%
Ron Paul 18%
Mitt Romney 7%
Virgil Goode 2%

94% Democratic
85% Green
20% Libertarian
7% Republican

(Those who scored high agreement with Romney: can you post your Virgil Goode scores?)
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Old 07-13-2012, 09:01 PM
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I was actually rather surprised that I matched up that closely with Mr. Obama.
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:11 PM
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In case anyone didn't notice, you can click on each candidates name to see where you matched up.

86 Obama, 30 Romney, but it said I agreed 75% with Romney on science of all things. But the only one we agreed on is "Should the United States increase our space exploration efforts and budget?"
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Old 07-14-2012, 12:41 AM
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Jill Stein 94%
Barack Obama 88%
Stewart Alexander 86%
and on down to Mitt Romney 4%

Seems about right.
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