How accurate or useful this is could probably be debated but here is an interesting opinion quiz to take to see which 2008 candidate your political views most align with:
http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch/senate2006.asp?quiz=2008#sec1
Just interested in who you personally back before taking the quiz and who it says your views align with.
Myself:
Glazer
January 4, 2008, 8:59pm
2
Huckabee/Huckabee
All the Dems scored higher socialy and the Pubs economicly.
Highest social score - Joe Biden - 56%
Highest economic score - Huckabee - 58%
Lowest overall - Chris Dodd - 23%
Highest rated Dem - Bill Richardson - 30%
Lowest rated Pub - Romney - 25%
Bill Richardson at the top, followed by Obama. Huckabee at the bottom, tied with two people I never heard of.
Risha
January 4, 2008, 9:37pm
4
This is handy! I was just thinking the other day that I should start researching the candidates’ positions prior to the day before the primary. For once in my life.
Here’s another one that I was linked to today - Glassbooth.org . Interestingly, these two tests gave me very different results, though in both cases they matched me to a candidate I never even heard of: Dodd from the former, Gravel from the latter. I guess that means that they’re doomed.
These quizzes never add up well. The scope is too small the answers to simple. It pays to read the candidates positions on the Issues.
I got Biden, Edwards & Richardson at 53% and I know from Edwards issues page, how strongly I do not support him.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
Or use a summary site like this: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/issues/candidates/
Or use the Wiki Political Position Pages :
The political positions of Ron Paul (R-Tex.), United States presidential candidate in 1988, 2008, and 2012, are generally described as libertarian, but have also been labeled conservative. Paul's nickname "Dr. No" reflects both his medical degree and his assertion that he will "never vote for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution". This position has frequently resulted in Paul casting the sole "no" vote against proposed legislation. In one In Jan...
Hillary Clinton, the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States in 2016, has taken positions on political issues while serving as First Lady of Arkansas (1979–81; 1983–92), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001); as U.S. Senator from New York (2001–2009); and serving as the United States Secretary of State (2009–2013).
In accordance with longstanding custom, during her time as Secretary of State she largely avoided taking stances on most domestic political issues...
Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, he made his presidential run in 2008. He was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
Obama has declared his position on many political issues through his public comments and legislative records. The Obama Administration stated that its general agenda was to "revive the economy, pr...
Here are some of Senator John Edwards's votes and remarks on various issues.
One of Edwards' main themes as a political figure is the problem of poverty in America. He believes that poverty can be cut by one third by 2016 and eliminated by 2036. He supports adoption of the National Academy of Sciences' recommendations for measuring poverty, which he claims would add one million people to the "poverty" class. His plan involves several tactics, including stronger families; better schools; and ...
U.S. Senator John McCain, a Republican Party politician from Arizona who was a member of the U.S. Congress from 1983 until his death in office in 2018, a two-time U.S. presidential candidate, and the nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, took positions on many political issues through his public comments, his presidential campaign statements, and his senatorial voting record.
Online, McCain used his Senate web site and his 2008 campaign web site to describe hi...
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (/ɡrəˈvɛl/ grə-VELL; May 13, 1930 – June 26, 2021) was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as member of the Democratic Party. Later in life, he twice made unsuccessful runs for U.S. presidential nominations.
Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, by French-Canadian immigrant parents, Gravel moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics. He served ...
The political positions of Mitt Romney have been recorded from his 1994 U.S. senatorial campaign in Massachusetts, the 2002 gubernatorial election, during his 2003–2007 governorship, during his 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, in his 2010 book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, during his 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, and during his 2018 senatorial campaign in Utah. Some of these political positions have changed, while others have remained unchanged.
In 1994, during his campaign f...
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
Dodd is a Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. His father, Thomas J. Dodd, was also a United States Sen...
Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003; Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.
He also chaired the International Security Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of State, was a member of ...
Elections:
Joe Biden, President of the United States, served as Vice President from 2009 to 2017 and in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he made his second presidential run in 2008, later being announced as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's running mate in 2008. He was elected vice president in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. In April 2019, Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign. He became the presumptive Democratic nominee in...
Mike Huckabee is the former Governor of Arkansas (1996–2007) and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 presidential election. He was running for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election but suspended his campaign on February 1, 2016
Huckabee opposes any public funding for abortion, and believes that abortion should be legal only when the life of the mother is a...
Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson for me.
zuma
January 5, 2008, 4:50am
7
I have a 4-way tie between Clinton, Dodd, McKinney, and Obama at 43%. That should clear things up for me.
Clinton 53%
Since I wouldn’t vote for Hillary if my life depended on it, that means I’m Obama’s man, which is the way I was planning on voting in the first place.