These were my exact results. I had the same reaction.
On an unrelated note, every time anyone uses the :eek: face in this thread. It is cracking my shit up. I just picture this little puppet staring at the screen with Bachmann’s face and it’s little wooden jaw falls open. Hilarity!
Obama by far, then Huntsman, Romney. Not exactly a shocker.
Again, this isn’t a test to find out your political views and then find the candidate who matches your views. Instead it lists the views of the major candidates and asks you to choose the one you disagree with the least.
Obama by a long shot, then I had one answer in common with Bachmann and Perry. I was a little miffed that the results didn’t show you which questions you had in common with each candidate. I had to go back and re-take it to see which ones I agreed with B & P.
I agree that some of the questions are oddly limited in their answers, but it isn’t supposed to evaluate your position and then match you. Instead, it matches you to a candidate’s position. So, if an option isn’t there, it’s because none of the top candidates is supporting it.
All I get is some damn popup ad after I answer a couple of questions. :mad:
But it creates a deceptive portrait of the candidate by excluding some important questions. Whether or not they want to be able to imprison people indefinitely without bothering to prove they actually did anything wrong is more important than precisely how they oppose same-sex marriage. It’s like taking a matchmaking quiz and being told your soulmate is Hannibal Lecter because the creator failed to recognise “Is a cannibal” as a deal breaker.
I have no idea why I got Perry. I’d never pick him.
No, the US doesn’t require citizens to vote, so voting for no one is an option. There’s also usually a write in spot where you can write in your own choice or “no one”, or you can just leave part of the ballot blank if you have no opinion.
There are also a wide variety of third party candidates on the ballot, though they very rarely get a meaningful share of the vote.
Because on at least one of the questions, the selection you picked was Perry’s view.
The premise of this quiz seems to be confusing a lot of people. Its only purpose is to give you the candidates’ actual statements on a variety of topics, and then tell you which candidate’s statements you chose most frequently.
Obama-Huntsman-Romney. Not surprising.
Also, you’d think ABC could afford a better characature artist.
Also, note to non-Americans: The candidates reflected in this quiz are the slate of current Republican hopefuls, plus Obama. So for any given question, you’ve got 7 Republican/Libertarian takes on the issue, and one Democratic one. (Or six and one, I forget how many total guys they had in the quiz.)
That was my first thought too.
Huntsman doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell, so he’s out. Obama as my first choice doesn’t surprise me all that much, not that I’ve been bowled over by his 1st term. Bachmann? I feel like I have to wash that off of me. I need a shower.
I got the same. So this next election should pretty much be win-win.
Obama = 1, 4, 6-11
Huntsman = 2 (taxes)
No candidate = 3 (Afghanistan)
Perry = 5 (Pakistan)
Like other posters, I did not necessarily agree with a candidate’s position on an issue. On several issues, the answer I chose was a case of disagreeing the least with one position, compared to the others offered.
I can see Huntsman, but Paul is a little too out there for me. At least none of the crazies made my list.
I have to say, however, that I found none of the options acceptable on a few of the questions and just chose the least bad. The gay marriage question was stupid. My views are not “evolving”. Gays should have the right to marry as well as every other right of every American. Period. The Mexican Border question had terrible choices as far as I’m concerned.
From a Canadian point of view - Ron Paul is the only one who tells it like it is. I’ve come to the conclusion that the further you travel down North America the more stupid people become.-- Your Gov system is a pile of shit – this could not happen in a parliamentry system of Govt, your founding fathers must have been real dillies to come up with the primaries etc. Iowa my ass – CNN is your headquarters and I think Wall St shysters are happy with Obama! – So he’s back in yes? – game over, they don’t need the fixed voting machines this time – aye er eh? :rolleyes:
I want Romney to win but I didn’t try to answer the quiz that way on purpose. I am a little surprised about the other two.
Obama 8
Huntsman 2
Paul 1
Perry
Romney
Bachmann
Not terribly accurate, as Attila the Hun was not an option …