Red, Blue or Purple?

[jellyblue]

Well, we know we have both liberals & conservatives on the boards, but what if there were some sort of standardized, objective way to determine just how liberal or conservative? Hmmm....

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103748/

I'm medium blue (in a jelly way ). I suspect I'm not indigo because my girlfriend's in law enforcement and showed me how to fire her gun.
How about you?

(Mods, if this must be in IMHO because it involves polling, please move it for me. I figure this is the very definition of mundane and pointless, however).

[Antigen]

I can't get the whole quiz to show on my screen, so I can't answer the last questions.

But I'm Canadian anyway. I'd just skew the results.

[DeVena]

It's time to get out of the sun. You're looking a little red.

Actually it looks like I'm blush pink. OOO I know! I'm rose'!

[malkavia]

I'm essentially white, but just tilted a bit pink.

Which is entirely inaccurate.

Almost every +10 had nothing to do with my political leaning and everything to do with being brought up by fundie parents and shopping at Wal-mart.

I'm gonna go feign Nascar ignorance and shift myself to a nice cornflower.

[PastAllReason]

Originally Posted by Antigen

I can't get the whole quiz to show on my screen, so I can't answer the last questions.

But I'm Canadian anyway. I'd just skew the results.

Ditto and ditto. And for the ones I did read (up to around 32 or so), unlike Malkavia, I would not have to feign NASCAR ignorance. I am markedly NASCAR ignorant.

[ZebraShaSha]

WOW! I was exactly in the middle! YAY FOR ME!

[silenus]

Right smack dab in the middle. Conservative parents/town, liberal wife. It all balances out.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

When I click on the link, I get a review of a book about Osama Bin Laden.

[gotpasswords]

They seem to have moved it to http://slate.msn.com/id/2103764/

[jellyblue]

Originally Posted by gotpasswords

They seem to have moved it to http://slate.msn.com/id/2103764/

Thanks, gotpasswords.

[Amp]

Smack dab in the middle.

[Ephemera]

That test is stupid. Because I grew up in a small Southern town, I'm somehow a right leaning moderate? Uh. No.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Right in the middle.

I didn't answer the "what do you eat with your brisket" because I've never had it.

[Lsura]

I can't get to the place to enter the answer for the last question, but with all the other answers, I'm fairly middle (but they put me on the edge of the red). I don't buy that at all, since I'm pretty liberal, though not extreme.

[5 time champ]

Originally Posted by Lsura

I can't get to the place to enter the answer for the last question, but with all the other answers, I'm fairly middle (but they put me on the edge of the red). I don't buy that at all, since I'm pretty liberal, though not extreme.

The test would appear to be one of the most poorly designed computer test ever made.

I am "slightly red" because I can correctly identify:
-universities in the Big 12 conference
-the parent company of Sam's Club
-the supposed author of the Book of Revelation
-the 4 cities that make up the Quad Cities
-the location of Door County
-the claim to infamy of Dr Laura Schlesinger
-the location of the UP

SPOILER:

Isn't the name of the ficitional president played by Martin Sheen JOSH Bartlett?

The quiz makes no sense at all.

[a35362]

5 time champ:

SPOILER:

No, Jed (or Josiah) is President Bartlet's name. Josh is a staffer.

It seems to be measuring for cultural knowledge, which translates into the political spectrum. I scored in the middle -- white-red -- although I'm a white-collar lefty in real life, just 'cause I knew (or guessed correctly) some blue-collar center-right stuff.

[bughunter]

This test appears to more accurately represent the politics of your region of the country than it does reflect a person's politics.

Still, I am right in the middle, with possibly a slight blue haze.

Or maybe I'm burning oil.

[AwSnappity]

I'm in the middle, more towards the red than the blue. I agree that this test is crap, though. If you just asked me what the winged number 3 meant, I wouldn't know. But give me four choices and I'll say, "Oh, Dale Earnhardt died, so it must be him." A lot of the answers were left blank.

[TeaElle]

I'm also a rosy pinkish red, mainly because I am well-versed about all manner of popular culture/arts and geography and walk my own dog. Also because I live within 30 miles of a Wal-Mart Supercenter (and know that they own Sam's Club).

So apparently those who are solidly colored aren't well-read or well-rounded people, and you can become more of a centrist by virtue of issues which rarely have anything to do with your political leanings, like living near a Wal-Mart, liking to exercise with your pet and using regional nomenclature and/or fashion morés.

[MovieMogul]

It says I'm in the middle, but the bar graph looks like a 40-60 break, with me leaning a bit into the blue.

[Electronic Chaos]

First off, this test is poorly designed. There's a reason everyone hates taking standardized tests in school, because it's a pain in the ass to fill in the bubbles. Oh, yeah, there's always the hours of studying stuff you will never remember after you take the test, too, but mostly it's the bubbles.

My head hurts.

Second, this test is no indicator of political affiliation, but how you've been brought up. I don't see how eating a brisket relates to your ideas on how the country should be run. And just because I live 2 miles away from a Wal-Mart Supercenter makes me more conservative than someone on the other side of town? And of course since my dad was a gun enthusiast when I was younger and let me fire off a few rounds every now and then makes me a card-carrying member of the NRA.
Shenanigans, I say.

[bouv]

I'm in the middle, slightly towards the red side. Why?

SPOILER:

Because I know Wal-Mart own Sam's Club, that Dale Earnheart died, and I've been hunting and fired guns.

It's really a test of what political and cultural knowledge you have, and whether you tend to know more conservative or liberal things.

[amarinth]

I also picked up a lot of red points because on the west coast, we don't public transportation, we have cars. (which you think Slate would have known, being in the middle of this huge liberal area with horrific traffic jams).

Plus with multiple choice - you eliminate a few answers, and you can guess at what might be right.