Just surfing about and found this test which asks you a series of questions and then, depending on your answers purports to show you which candidate most closely is in line with your views on those answers. I thought it would be fun to see what answers people get, assuming anyone wants to take the 10 minutes needed to take the test and report what the answers were.
FTR, Obama was my supposed number one choice (no big surprise to me, as I voted for him in the last election and he’s still my number one guy at this point) and Romney was my number 2 (I don’t remember now who number 3 was…it wasn’t any of the big name candidates).
Jon Huntsman was my #1 guy. Not surprised. I had liked what I had heard about him (seems to be willing to work with both sides, pro-life, accepts science on global warming…I’m down with that).
Obama, Newt, Bachmann. Um…no. Obama is okay. Newt is, well, sane, which is a big advantage in the current field. But Bachmann? Please.
As with all of these political orientation quizzes, it desperately needs a slider allowing you to weight each question with regard to how much you care about the issue. Also, they apparently don’t believe that civil libertarians exist…the gay marriage question didn’t even have a straight “pro” answer!
I made it to the gay marriage question, then quit. There was no option for someone who simply supports gay marriage. Funny that that choice was left out.
Yeah, there were at least a couple of questions where there wasn’t a good choice for me. The gay marriage question allowed me to only choose something that implies reluctant allowance of gay marriage. I’m straight, but if gays can get married, it doesn’t affect MY marriage at all. I also didn’t like the choices on education or tax reform.
Obama, Ron Paul, Huntsman. Some of my answers were different from what I actually think though since as other posters experienced my actual beliefs weren’t listed and there were no “Other” choices. Such as the illegal immigration question; my position is basically “don’t really care personally about stopping it, make legal immigration easier and punish the employers of illegal immigrants if you do want to stop it”.
Yeah, I came a bit annoyed with that one too, then realized that it wasn’t a nefarious attempt at limiting choice, but merely reflected the range of expressed positions. Ya gotta choose among the real options, I guess.
For the record, my allegedly ideal candidates were Obama, Rick Perry (!) (2) and Ron Paul (1). Not the ones I would have predicted for the number two and three spots…