# Take the test to see which candidate you REALLY want!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 20, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818 "2011-12-20T04:48:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/1 "2011-12-20T04:48:44Z")
Just surfing about and found [this](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/fullpage?id=15177995) 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).
-XT
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### Author:  [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/2 "2011-12-20T04:59:14Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/3 "2011-12-20T05:20:12Z")
Obama, then Huntsman. Perry was third.:eek:
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/4 "2011-12-20T05:27:17Z")
Obama, Paul, Hunstman.
I knd of expected that.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/5 "2011-12-20T05:34:43Z")
Obama, then Newt, then Romney.
Obama is a non-starter for me, and Newt eliminated himself with his comments on the judiciary today, so it looks like I need to check out Romney.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/6 "2011-12-20T05:41:41Z")
Obama, not surprising, then Hunstman, don’t know anything about him, then… New Gingrich?
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/7 "2011-12-20T05:54:45Z")
Obama, Paul, Perry. Not sure how Perry got in there.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/8 "2011-12-20T05:58:47Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#):
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> Obama, not surprising, then Hunstman, don’t know anything about him, then… New Gingrich?
Oops- Newt. He’s **not** new, unfortunately, he’s old.
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### Author:  [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/9 "2011-12-20T06:30:13Z")
Newt, Romney, then Obama. Huh.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/10 "2011-12-20T06:41:28Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/11 "2011-12-20T06:57:09Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/12 "2011-12-20T07:09:03Z")
According to the test, it’s 1) Obama, 2) Bachman, 3) Gingrich. (!)
These tests always seem to get spoofed by my choices…I think they all average out to “I want as few humans alive and reproducing as possible.”
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/13 "2011-12-20T07:10:10Z")
1. Obama
2. Huntsman for 2 questions
3. Bachman for 1 question
The last one makes me feel sick but it’s probably a question I couldn’t decide on and picked randomly. I think it was the Pakistan one.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/14 "2011-12-20T07:40:25Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/15 "2011-12-20T07:51:33Z")
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”.
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### Author:  [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/16 "2011-12-20T08:00:09Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> 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, 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…
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/17 "2011-12-20T08:06:24Z")
The choices seem to be base on candidates statements and none have said yes to gay marriage.
My results:
1. Obama
2. Bachmann :eek::eek:
3. Huntsman
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/18 "2011-12-20T08:10:54Z")
Paul, Bachman, Perry…
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/19 "2011-12-20T08:17:07Z")
Obama was number one. That makes sense.
Romney number two. Also makes sense.
_Bachman_ was three. What?!
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-test-to-see-which-candidate-you-really-want/606818/20 "2011-12-20T08:18:52Z")
Obama was number one. That makes sense.
Romney number two. Also makes sense.
_Bachman_ was three. What?!
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