# Election Quiz: Which Candidates Matches You The Most?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 30, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147 "2015-10-30T02:25:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/1 "2015-10-30T02:25:41Z")
Came across this quiz on [Isidewith.com](http://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?
Please do tell us.
> **[2023 Political Quiz](https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz)**
>
> Answer the following questions to see how your political beliefs match your political parties and candidates.
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/2 "2015-10-30T03:00:26Z")
Been there, done that, didn’t save the results. Matched Bernie 90% or more, Hillary 2-3 points behind him.
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### Author:  [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/3 "2015-10-30T03:56:24Z")
Bernie 90%, Hillary 90%
I would be happy to vote for either in the General Election.
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### Author:  [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/4 "2015-10-30T05:37:36Z")
Cruz, 95%
Rubio, 94%
Carson, 91%
Fiorina, 91%
Paul, 89%
Bush, 88%
Trump, 86%
Clinton, 34%
Sanders, 20%
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.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/5 "2015-10-30T05:52:28Z")
Bernie 97%, Hillary 90%, Martin O’Malley 77%, and some detritus (\< 50%), including Jim Webb, who is actually below Chris Christie and Rand Paul.
I’m reasonably happy with the current state of the DNC primary and will be happy to vote Democratic (Clinton, most likely) in 2016.
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/6 "2015-10-30T05:57:54Z")
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%
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/7 "2015-10-30T06:17:27Z")
HRC 98%
Sanders 94%
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Jindal 55% (First Republican)
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Carson 4% (Bottom)
Labeled “Left Wing Authoritarian” … and here I thought of myself as only slightly left of center!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/8 "2015-10-30T06:35:05Z")
Sanders at 89%, Clinton at 84%, but I won’t be voting for either.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/9 "2015-10-30T11:16:45Z")
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%
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\*Trump 44%
$Kasich 41%
$Clinton 39%
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$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. 😛
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/10 "2015-10-30T11:38:44Z")
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?_
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/11 "2015-10-30T11:47:59Z")
Sanders 98%
Clinton 92%
O’Malley 79%
Webb 51%
Christie 34%
Huckabee 27%
Paul 20%
Kasich 17%
Trump 16%
Jindal 13%
Graham 11%
Cruz 8%
Carson 7%
Santorum 6%
Rubio 5%
Fiorina 4%
By party
Green 97%
Democratic 95%
Socialist 93%
Libertarian 33%
Republican 3%
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/12 "2015-10-30T14:07:47Z")
Sanders 93
Clinton 86
O’Malley 82
Webb 51
Trump 31
Bush 23
Paul 15
Cruz 12
Carson 5
My ideology:
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> Left-Wing Authoritarian
> Your political beliefs would be considered strongly Left-Wing Authoritarian on an ideological scale, meaning you tend to stand up and protect those who are oppressed or taken advantage of and believe the government should do the same.
Sounds about right.
Despite Sanders edging Clinton out in my results, I’m all in for Clinton at this point.
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/13 "2015-10-30T14:50:06Z")
Sanders–87%
Clinton–82%
Paul–59%
Jeb–55%
Trump-54%
Still planning on voting for the Democratic candidate, but looks like I am more moderate than others herein…
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### Author:  [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/14 "2015-10-30T15:39:05Z")
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%
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/15 "2015-10-30T16:09:49Z")
Sanders 97%
Clinton 92%
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Trump 52% :eek:
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/16 "2015-10-30T16:20:44Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Sanders at 89%, Clinton at 84%, but I won’t be voting for either.
Just curious, do you know who you’ll be voting for? Or just know that it won’t be either Sanders or Clinton?
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/17 "2015-10-30T16:35:22Z")
Sanders 97%
Hillary 80%
O’Malley 80%
Webb 51%
Less than 50% I’m not including.
(Except to include one statistical anomaly: They gave me an 11% for Cruz :eek:, that has to be a mistake!)
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/18 "2015-10-30T16:57:26Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/19 "2015-10-30T17:18:54Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/20 "2015-10-30T17:52:43Z")
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
But this can’t be right.
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