# Election Quiz: Which Candidates Matches You The Most? **URL:** \ **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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/61 "2015-11-04T03:20:40Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > To some extent, yes, but character and competence are not generally ideological. One way a candidate can show character and competence on the issues is by correctly diagnosing what the nation’s most urgent priorities are, whereas a candidate without good character or competence will just campaign on whatever the polls or headlines say is most important. By that measure Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin would be extremely worthy of your vote. > [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > 8 > > I wish Scoop Jackson were there. Figures at much at my result (with Christie being the top GOPer) because on social/domestic issues, I’m rather liberal, but on foreign policy and American Greatness, some might call me a “neo-con.” I actually agree-New Deal liberals like Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, and so forth (in my opinion) hit the sweet spot between tiresome Third Way social liberalism and controversial (and probably ineffective) left-wing social democracy of Bernie Sanders. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/62 "2015-11-04T15:16:05Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I’m actually disappointed that hillary was that high, I _LOATHE_ her! I’d vote for Cthulhu before I’d cast a vote for hillmohtep > > I also hate Trump(y) (hey trumpy, you can say stupid things!), and jeb, and would trust Christie about as far as I could throw him (not very far) It has been mentioned earlier: on many _actual issues_, many of the candidates are hardly radical in any real sense of the word, and actually far closer to each other and to the mainstream than the perception of many in the public. And too often a claim of substantive shortcomings is actually a reflection of personal dislike, or of tying it in to the more extreme version of their position. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/63 "2015-11-04T16:14:04Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > It has been mentioned earlier: on many _actual issues_, many of the candidates are hardly radical in any real sense of the word, and actually far closer to each other and to the mainstream than the perception of many in the public. And too often a claim of substantive shortcomings is actually a reflection of personal dislike, or of tying it in to the more extreme version of their position. The hillbeast lost my vote due to her strong anti-constitutional slant, yes, specifically the Second Amendment, I’m a law abiding gun owner, and even though I’m not an NRA member, I found her gun owner/NRA member slam highly offensive. None of my firearms have ever been used in anger, or against another human, so why should I have my rights infringed because of what some crazy person _might_ do, or because somebody is “scared” of firearms. I’ll drop any further elaboration, don’t want to derail this into a firearms debate, we have too many of those already. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/64 "2015-11-10T23:32:04Z")
Scoop’s dead, man. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/65 "2015-11-11T00:02:16Z")
Hahahaha. My \>60% scores were: 76% Sanders 73% Trump 70% Rubio 69% Clinton 66% Bush 66% Cruz The candidate I picked in the last question was Warren. My second choice would have been Webb. I don’t know how any of those above got my name on them, really I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/66 "2015-11-11T00:38:04Z")
91% Bernie Sanders 87% Hillary Clinton 72% Martin O’Malley 61% Rand Paul (I knew I tended towards the libertarian portion of the spectrum, but…) 59% The Donald Everyone else is below 50%. Greens: 95% Democrats: 93% Socialist: 86% Constitution: 62% Amusing. I fantasize of the day I don’t have to play puppeteer with the cadaver that is the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Apparently I’m also way right of center in terms of immigration issues, which probably gives people like the Donald and Randy such high scores. I don’t subscribe to the Trump “Build a Wall and Make Them Pay For It” school of immigration policy, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147/67 "2015-11-11T03:45:57Z")
97% Bernie Sanders. I haven’t really been paying attention to him either, I’ve just been annoyed by all the “feel the bern” memes so I deliberately avoid the topic. I had no idea we were so closely matched and I answered every available question. The last time I took one of these political compass type tests I was closest to Joe Biden. Clinton was 94% so not too far away. On the opposite end I got 13% for Carson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-quiz-which-candidates-matches-you-the-most/736147.md?page=3)