# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/41 "2008-01-14T10:48:45Z")
I came up with Obama on this one, but with Edwards on [the Dutch version](http://eenvandaag.nl/index.php?module=PX_Story&type=user&func=view&cid=465). (Don’t worry, it’s in English). I saw in the paper today that most Dutch guys are coming up with Edwards. I fear I am going native. Somebody get me a cheeseburger, quick. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/42 "2008-01-14T11:12:55Z")
I got 83% for both Kucinich and Gravel, and 69% for Obama. Frankly, I haven’t paid any attention to Kucinich because I know he’s unelectable, but I’m not surprised by that result. Interesting quiz set-up. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/43 "2008-01-14T13:20:11Z")
Me- Hunter & Huckabee both 79%, McCain & Thompson both 76% Anti-Me- Kucinich 98%, Gravel 91%, Edwards 76% ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/44 "2008-01-14T13:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion] I got 81% Kucinich and 80% Gravel. Funny–the other quiz I took put me 90+% Gravel. I think the guy is a moron, but apparently we are like-minded morons. [/QUOTE] Mike Gravel- 88%. The guy is loony tunes. But, I guess he’s my guy! ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/45 "2008-01-14T16:00:15Z")
[QUOTE=jackdavinci] Nah. Kucinich actually professes most of the policies that liberals and democrats favor in theory. But the other candidates try to be more moderate in order to be more “electable” and out of pragmatism. You see the same sort of thing with third parties - they may have all the policies people want in theory, but not be considered viable and so aren’t ever voted for. [/QUOTE] I got a 100% match with Kucinich (unelectable), 91% for Gravel (never heard of him) and 84% for Edwards, whom I really like. 79% match with both Clinton and Obama, which I can live with. ---
**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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/46 "2008-01-14T17:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] What’s so hard about it? Just hit the back button and click the exact opposites of the ones you clicked the first time. [/QUOTE] What’s the exact opposite of a 5 for Education? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/47 "2008-01-14T17:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] What’s the exact opposite of a 5 for Education? [/QUOTE] You can keep the weighted items the same and respond on teh support/don’t support scale the opposite, ie if you selected education to be an important issue (5 points) don’t change that, but instead of supporting more funds, say you don’t support more funds. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/48 "2008-01-14T17:33:28Z")
My ‘issue’ points were evenly divided between: Abortion and Birth Control, Environment and Energy, Civil Liberties and Domestic Security, Gay Rights, and Health Care. 95% Kucinich 84% Edwards 83% Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/49 "2008-01-14T17:43:36Z")
74% Obama 73% Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/50 "2008-01-14T17:45:18Z")
Dennis Kucinich here too. If I could only get him to go pro-free-trade, he’d be my ubercandidate… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/51 "2008-01-14T18:06:30Z")
Looks like I’m in the Kucinich camp. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/52 "2008-01-14T18:32:02Z")
I got 100% with every candidate except those that dropped out of the race (with whom I got 0% each). Then I remembered to allow cookies from the website and got the following results: Obama - 81% Kucinich - 77% Gravel -77% Edwards - 77% Clinton - 75% Paul - 59% Thompson - 58% McCain - 55% Huckabee - 48% Romney - 46% Giuliani - 45% Hunter - 36% Not bothering to do the quiz as anti-me, since I can probably guess the top picks there would be Hunter, Giuliani, and Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/53 "2008-01-14T18:39:06Z")
Ha ha…for me, it’s: Huckabee 80% Thompson 76% McCain & Romney 74% Kucinich is my opposite at 46% I don’t usually go for the super-religious types, but maybe Huckabee is my guy. I’ll have to think about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/54 "2008-01-14T18:48:25Z")
Ron Paul 83% Mike Gravel 64% Mike Huckabee 61% Seems pretty clear who I like 🙂 ---
**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, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/55 "2008-01-14T19:15:04Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] You can keep the weighted items the same and respond on teh support/don’t support scale the opposite, ie if you selected education to be an important issue (5 points) don’t change that, but instead of supporting more funds, say you don’t support more funds. [/QUOTE] So the weighted items don’t affect the outcome at all? Then why are they part of the thing? 😕 ---
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/56 "2008-01-14T19:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] Looks like I’m in the Kucinich camp. [/QUOTE] Me, too, but he’s a nice short guy, like me. I get creamed at everything, from high school dating to IRS audits. :rolleyes: Any Republican candidate will kick his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/57 "2008-01-14T20:34:43Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] I’m Canadian Dennis Kucinich 95% Doing it back-assed, Duncan Hunter 91% [/QUOTE] I got Kucinich at 91%. I guess it’s true that our conservatives are to the left of US socialists 🙂 . If I were American, I’d vote for Obama hands down. ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/58 "2008-01-14T20:56:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bookkeeper] If I were American, I’d vote for Obama hands down. [/QUOTE] Keep you cotton pickin’ hands off our…oh, wait. I’ll have to flee North if the Republicans win again. Er, yes, how very nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/59 "2008-01-14T21:09:53Z")
Gravel 81% Kucinish 77% Edwards 66% . . . Clinton 62% Obama 63% I keep getting matched high with Gravel but he has no chance its depressing that I don’t agree with anyone who has a chance of getting elected I’m seriously thinking of voting for Colert. I live in California so my vote for president dosen’t matter any way. ---
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381/60 "2008-01-14T21:10:50Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > What’s the exact opposite of a 5 for Education? I didn’t say “hit the back button twice”. > [@KneadToKnow](#): > > So the weighted items don’t affect the outcome at all? Then why are they part of the thing? They determine which questions you get, because it’s assumed that those are the things you care about in a candidate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-political-orientation/433381.md?page=2)