# Test your political orientation **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381 "2008-01-13T15:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/21 "2008-01-13T23:13:23Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I did notice the questions were slightly different when I did it the second time. [/QUOTE] I think it picks the questions based on what you said were the issues that were most important to you. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/22 "2008-01-13T23:34:02Z")
This makes absolutely no sense to me. My top two: Mike Huckabee 70% Barack Obama 69% What !!! How does that work? Talk about “balancing the ticket”. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/23 "2008-01-14T00:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun] This makes absolutely no sense to me. My top two: Mike Huckabee 70% Barack Obama 69% What !!! How does that work? Talk about “balancing the ticket”. [/QUOTE] I was wondering about how \*\*koeeoaddi \*\* got Ron Paul 75% and Barack Obama 71%. But yours is more bizarre by about an order of magnitude. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/24 "2008-01-14T00:14:25Z")
Honest: Ron Paul - 80% Gravel - 64% Duncan Hunter - 61% Anti: Mitt Romney - 72% Clinton - 64% Obama - 62% I left the weighting the same and answered the questions exactly opposite. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/25 "2008-01-14T00:24:13Z")
All of my results are completely unelectable, so I won’t vote for any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Nya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@Fish\_Nya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Nya)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/26 "2008-01-14T00:39:54Z")
John Edwards 79% Hillary Clinton 76% Barack Obama 75% The only points I was different from any of these guys were tax/budget type ones. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/27 "2008-01-14T00:59:49Z")
Not a US citizen, but just for fun. Romney 74 Rudy 69 Huckabee 69 (Obama 55%!) ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/28 "2008-01-14T01:01:09Z")
As myself: Barack Obama- 77% Mitt Romney- 70% Hillary Clinton- 70% As the opposite: Duncan Hunter- 79% Mike Huckabee- 76% Mitt Romney- 75% Something seems to be amiss, both in terms of the fact that the same guy shows up in the “myself” and “someone else” portions, and the fact that the dissimilarities for these candidates seem off from where my chief disagreements are. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/29 "2008-01-14T01:43:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] I was wondering about how \*\*koeeoaddi \*\* got Ron Paul 75% and Barack Obama 71%. [/QUOTE] Easy peasy, and surprisingly accurate. See, I’m politically [del]schizophr[/del] eclectic. Basically libertarian, socially liberal and, though I know it will end in tears, strongly in favor of big-ass commie Department of Motor Vehicle-style universal health care. Yeah, yeah, I know. Makes my head hurt, too. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/30 "2008-01-14T01:52:06Z")
Pretty much nailed it. Obama 76% Hillary 72% Edwards 70% Didn’t bother to go the against route. I know who I can’t stand. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/31 "2008-01-14T01:56:21Z")
I’m Canadian Dennis Kucinich 95% Doing it back-assed, Duncan Hunter 91% ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/32 "2008-01-14T02:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Napier] Somehow, a President Kuchinich seems untenable. He’s a good deal older than I am, and his wife’s a couple years younger than our youngest child. Plus, that being said, I feel like a creep for thinking she’s hot. And is that a bad rug, or what? [/QUOTE] [http://roissy.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/dennis-kucinich-alpha-male/](http://roissy.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/dennis-kucinich-alpha-male/) ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/33 "2008-01-14T02:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Something seems to be amiss, both in terms of the fact that the same guy [Romney] shows up in the “myself” and “someone else” portions, [/QUOTE] Hey, Mitt Romney will take up any position you want. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/34 "2008-01-14T02:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I got Kucinich and Gravel (again) – too bad neither of them actually has a shot. [/QUOTE] Me, too. WTF is this Gravel person? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/35 "2008-01-14T02:15:13Z")
I only tried it straight. I’m too politically ignorant to try it the other way. Now that that straight-line gun is fully loaded, I’ll say that my results were Obama (79%), then Clinton and Edwards (78% each). ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/36 "2008-01-14T02:18:04Z")
I got Kucinich with my honest answers, and Duncan Hunter (??) whoever that is, with my antithetical ones. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/37 "2008-01-14T06:43:39Z")
Kucinich 86% Gravel 80% Obama 78% Which is surprising, since I don’t consider myself a Kucinich supporter. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/38 "2008-01-14T06:51:09Z")
Odd…I got a 74% match with Obama, and a 64% match with Giuliani. The last time I took this site’s test, they tested to within like 5% of each other. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/39 "2008-01-14T09:54:36Z")
Like **Bobotheoptimist** , I left the weighting the same and answered the questions exactly opposite. Dennis Kucinich Duncan Hunter Unfortunately, Duncan Hunter is also my representative in the House. Sometimes I hate San Diego. > [@athelas](#): > > Hey, Mitt Romney will take up any position you want. I wish you were kidding. I read a very telling article the other day about how Mitt Romney won (Governor) in Massachusetts by selling out to everyone he hated (the classic MA liberal interests) leading up to the election, and then stabbed them in the back with his policies. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > WTF is this Gravel person? He’s the guy who loudly and rightly complained about getting no reasonable chance to answer any questions during the CNN YouTube debate. > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I only tried it straight. I’m too politically ignorant to try it the other way. Now that that straight-line gun is fully loaded, I’ll say that my results were Obama (79%), then Clinton and Edwards (78% each). What’s so hard about it? Just hit the back button and click the exact opposites of the ones you clicked the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/40 "2008-01-14T10:10:32Z")
Apparently I’m a typical Doper. Dennis Kucinich for real, Duncan Hunter for opposite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381.md?page=3)