Came across this quiz on Isidewith.com, a site dedicated to the election, candidates, and the issues from environment, abortion, education, foreign policy, drugs, economy and more.
I took the quiz and was a bit surprised, I matched with Hillary Clinton 90%, and Bernie Sanders at the heels with 88%.
Martin O’Malley came in third, and the rest were Republicans starting with Mike Huckabee:smack:
The quiz is very quick and has multiple choices, plus the option to write in your own answers.
So fellow Straight Dopers, which candidates do YOU match with the most?
If I’m any indication, it’s no wonder the GOP can’t make up its mind. Polls show that most Republicans would consider a candidate other than the one they’re currently supporting.
Bernie Sanders-89%
Hillary Clinton-82%
Martin O’Malley-74%
Jim Webb-60%
Mike Huckabee-59%
Donald Trump-57%
Chris Christie-55%
Rand Paul-44%
John Kasich-43%
Jeb Bush-39%
Ted Cruz-34%
Marco Rubio-33%
Carly Fiorina-33%
Rick Santorum-33%
Bobby Jindal-31%
Lindsey Graham-31%
Ben Carson-19%
Did it in the old thread early … twice. This time they actually finished including a couple more candidates. I’ll include everyone who breaks 50%. I’ll also include result for my “Four Horsemen of the Apocalupse” (Trump, Cruz, Carson, Sanders) candidates marked with an *. My top three by preference (Webb, Kasich, Clinton) will be included and marked with a $. I’ll also include the runt of the litter at the end. I’ll even include my agreement with the SDMB.
The results said I am a centrist (just a hair left of center and a pretty much dead center between libertarian and authoritarian.)
Fiorina 54%
*Sanders 53%
*Carson 52%
Bush 52%
Rubio 51%
…
*Trump 44%
$Kasich 41%
$Clinton 39%
…
$Webb 34%
*Cruz 31%
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Jindal 23%
SDMB 16%
No wonder I never developed a strong partisan reflex. I mostly disagree with the candidates of both major parties.
95% Sanders
87% Clinton
75% O’Malley
60% Kasich
54% Bush
41% Trump
36% Cruz
21% Paul
16% Carson
These results seem about right. But many or most of the questions were too ambiguous to give considered answers. For example, Should a photo ID be required to vote? I think ID for voting makes much sense. But in today’s real America, that’s not a question. The question is Should voting ID laws be structured, state by state to favor the Party in control of that state’s legislature?
Right-wing libertarian according to the survey, which sounds about right.
Rand Paul 88%
Ted Cruz 87%
Carly Fiorina 85%
Ben Carson 84%
Jeb Bush 83%
Marco Rubio 82%
Donald Trump 81%
Mike Huckabee 75%
Bobby Jindal 75%
Chris Christie 72%
John Kasich 67%
Jim Webb 25%
Hillary Clinton 18%
Martin O’Malley 8%
Bernie Sanders 5%
I don’t really like any of the candidates and my opinions are pretty nuanced. I am pretty conservative economically with a belief in a strong social safety net, very liberal socially, and have some Libertarian foreign policy views to throw in the mix.
Anyway, I thought the grouping was interesting:
78% Bernie Sanders
75% Hillary Clinton
69% Rand Paul
67% Jim Webb
64% Martin O’Malley
62% Marco Rubio
61% Rick Santorum
60% Donald Trump
58% Chris Christie
56% Ted Cruz
53% John Kasich
52% Jeb Bush
52% Carly Fiorina
46% Ben Carson
46% Mike Huckabee
44% Bobby Jindal
37% Lindsey Graham
Carson 88%
Cruz 87%
Trump 87%
Rubio 86%
Paul 85%
Fiorina 85%
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Clinton 51%
Sanders 41%
Interesting, but I wouldn’t say entirely accurate. There are big things I absolutely do not agree with Carson about (flat tax) and I don’t support him. Unfortunately, the quiz didn’t get that specific.
I’m more aligned with Hillary on social issues than with any other candidate.
WTF?? It says Bernie Sanders. This can’t be right. My top match is Bernie Sanders, and second match is Rand Paul, who are complete opposites. I don’t know how this happened, maybe the server crashed as I was completing it or something. For what it’s worth, here’s the results:
80% Bernie Sanders
68% Rand Paul
67% Hillary Clinton
64% Ben Carson
60% Donald Trump
59% Ted Cruz
56% Martin O’Malley
55% Rick Santorum
54% Jeb Bush
Everyone else below 50%. Lowest matches:
34% Chris Christie
30% John Kasich
28% Jim Webb
