# Political leanings?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [March 15, 2003, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569 "2003-03-15T08:34:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/1 "2003-03-15T08:34:33Z")
I was wondering if there is a site or something that would have questions( ie Is abortion right? Gun control?) that I could answer and tell me where I am on the politicial scale?
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### Author:  [@Jiang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jiang)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/2 "2003-03-15T08:38:43Z")
Confusing questions:
[http://www.politicalcompass.org/](http://www.politicalcompass.org/)
Libertarian bent:
[http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html](http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html)
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/3 "2003-03-15T08:50:25Z")
It says:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.21
Anyone able to intrepret those numbers?
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### Author:  [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/4 "2003-03-15T08:56:36Z")
You are a good for nothing hippie. 🙂
It means you are on the left economically - favoring more goverment control over economic activity, welfare programs, and when it comes things like most personal choices, you fall on the left - don’t care about homosexuality or drug use. These are just examples, your personal beliefs may vary on certain issues, its just that is what your score would predict.
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### Author:  [@Jiang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jiang)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/5 "2003-03-15T09:00:33Z")
You are a liberal.
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/6 "2003-03-15T09:01:41Z")
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/7 "2003-03-15T21:11:24Z")
The Pew Research Center has developed a political typology that classiffies Americans into ten groups. To find out where you belong, go to [www.pbs.org/timetochoose/quizzes/fit.html](http://www.pbs.org/timetochoose/quizzes/fit.html), and take the quiz.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/8 "2003-03-15T21:20:29Z")
The above link won’t work unless you delete the comma at the end of the url.
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### Author:  [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/9 "2003-03-15T21:48:59Z")
Hmmm… just as I suspected, I’m a right-leaning libertarian.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/10 "2003-03-15T22:06:46Z")
Bystander. Typical.
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### Author:  [@McDuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDuff)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings/161569/11 "2003-03-16T03:04:24Z")
Woo, I’m a Liberal Democrat!
The irony is that, even though I’m not in the states and the thing doesn’t apply to me (for example, both major political parties over there in the States are so far to the right that being asked “which is closer to you” is like being asked “do you feel closer to Europa or Ganymede?”), I am a supporter of the [Liberal Democrats](http://www.libdems.org.uk/) over here. Fun.