Non-Fiscal: Moderate Liberal (24)
Fiscal: Centrist (60)
Seems roughly correct, but I stress roughly.
I’ve yet take one of these surveys that didn’t leave me feeling backed into a corner. The choices never seem nuanced enough, though I like, in this case, that one could weight the answers according to priority. Still, with this, and all others of its ilk, I invariably wish there were a few more choices for my answer. “None of the above” tends to reflect my truest feelings, but what’s the point in taking a survey when you express no oppinion? Hence, I’m always left picking the answer that feels like the best compromise, and I’m never completely satisfied with the result.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, I rank as a Strong Liberal (10).
On Fiscal Issues, I rank as a Strong Liberal (8).
Damn right. The gun question threw me for a loop, though – I’m against gun control, because it’d probably work about as well as the drug control works in this country.
On the gay marriage issue, the options were “no oppinion”, or the usual standard options: reserved for heteros, marriage for everybody, civil unions for homos, marriage for heteros.
Me, if I had the choice, I would have said “civil unions for everybody; institutionalized ‘marriage’ violates separation of church and state”.
Since no such option existed, I had to pick “marriage for everybody”, which is in accordance with my anti-discriminatory ethics, but completely opposed to my anti-state-sponsored-religion ethics.
None of the choices made me very happy, and hence the answer I was forced to give bore little resemblance to my real preference.
Note that it also said “leave it up to the states to decide”.
This test seemed more like a “what do you think the powers of the federal government should be” test than a true poltical compass. One might have different answers if the questions were asked about federal vs state authority.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (16).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (35).
But some of the questions were poor. For the media one, how come you can’t be against conglomerate ownership and censorship? They aren’t the same thing.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (14).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (2).
I’ll admit, though, that I’m pretty ignorant on fiscal issues and I think I may have just picked whichever option sounded the most liberal for some of those questions.