The Washington Post recently posted a “Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most?” online quiz.
Who was your front-runner?
Apparently, I agree most with Yang, and Bloomberg second.
Many of the questions ask whether the U.S. government should consider some proposal. Of course all of those should be given due consideration, and then decided on their merits.
My top scorers were
Steyer
Klobachar
Biden / Bloomberg (tie)
Buttigieg
Warren/Yang (tie)
But its not a totally accurate reflection of how I feel and I seriously doubt that I will vote for Tom Steyer in the primaries.
There are issues that were on the survey that I care deeply about and issues that I care little to nothing about. Some of my answers were pretty much toss-ups. Some of the issues I had not even considered until the moment I took the survey. Even on the issues that are important to me, some of my opinions weren’t as binary as the survey options.
Still, it’s a nice little tool, assuming that it’s basically accurate.
Yang, Bloomberg and Biden were tied at the top with 11. I’m not sure how to vote.
Warren - 13
Yang - 12
Sanders - 10
Steyer - 10
Which isn’t surprising, I waver between Warren and Sanders and like Yang’s approach to automation.
I’m surprised Sanders is opposed to a carbon tax.
I found it hard to care much about the different approaches these candidates take to the problems. In many cases, there is more than one way to approach a problem. I got “Biden,” which surprised me a bit, but I think I’m in a moderate mood these days. While big changes are are worth aiming for, all I really need in 2020 is a return to competence, decency, and dignity. Any of the Dems would be fine.
Warren: 14
Sanders: 11
Bloomberg: 9
Yang; Steyer: 8
I’m a swing voting RINO but will be voting in the Dem primary. I get Biden, Bloomberg, and Yang tied with 13 things they agree with me on. Warren and Sanders pull up the rear at 4 and 3 respectively.
Biden has three question marks so that is 13 out of 17. Yang and Bloomberg have provided clear answers to all questions so they are 13 out of 20. Advantage Biden for the poll.
I don’t weight issues equally like their result does. They also give very little focus to the foreign policy questions I most care about when selecting a president. As a tool it at least summarizes lots of positions. If you go past the simple score it is a nice rollup.
Yang tied with Bloomberg.
At least they mentioned the deficit and the national debt.
Regards,
Shodan
Very interesting. Mine was a tie between Bloomberg and Yang* (Yang won a coin toss for this thread’s poll, since multiple choices are not allowed), at 13 agreed policies each, with Biden close behind at 12.
I might have to give this Yang fellow a closer look! (For 2024 or 2028, I suppose).
*Regards to Shodan! 
Yang 14
Bloomberg 12
Buttigieg 12
Biden 11
Klobuchar 11
Steyer 10
Warren 9
Gabbard 7
Sanders 3
I’m not sure WP did a good job of forcing each box into a 0/1. For example, Sanders scored low in part because I’m supposedly more progressive than him on some issues! :smack: He (according to WP) does not support carbon tax, and does not support UBI.
Warren 14
Sanders 10
Yang 10
Steyer 10
Bloomberg 8
Buttigieg 6
Klobuchar 6
Gabbard 5
Biden 4
I’d go for Cthulhu but he’s aced-out of the primaries. I blame the DNC.
A lot of false dichotomies in those questions. Release from prison does not mean your sentence is complete. Deportation question didn’t have much nuance. Paid leave question is somewhat arbitrary.
Yang gang I guess, though I don’t really support him he seems decent enough. I think I can rank candidates if I vote in the primary so I might throw him in as a dark horse if that’s possible.
They seem to think I’d like Bloomy and I’d rather eat my shoe.
Biden 16
Bloomberg 16
Klobuchar 13
Steyer 12
Buttigieg 10
Yang 10
Gabbard 7
Sanders 5
Warren 5
I guess I’m more moderate than I thought.
I’m actually a RINO who hasn’t voted for a Republican for President in two decades, and hasn’t voted for a Republican for any office for nearly as long. The main reasons I haven’t switched parties is a combination of a vain hope that the Republican party will pull back from its extreme rightward lurch of recent years, and a fear that the Trump administration will retaliate against federal employees who are Democrats. (I’m not a federal employee, but my wife is.)
I have to admit I haven’t drilled down into the policy positions on many of the candidates yet. I was surprised that I matched 14 with Steyer, who I know nothing about. I’ll have to read up on him. My second highest was Warren at 13, which didn’t surprise me, but Sanders bringing up the rear at 8 was a bit unexpected. I was thinking that I was wavering between Sanders and Warren (leaning Warren), but I’ll have to do some more homework.
Oh, and I agree that the “should/shouldn’t consider” questions were not very good. Yeah, we should consider lots of things. I’d hate if we went around making decisions without data.
In any case, I’m almost certainly going to vote for the eventual Democratic nominee in the general (along with every other Dem down the ballot). I suppose if, the day before the election, the Democrat is caught on video pulling off her face mask to reveal a V style alien lizard, I’d vote third party. But otherwise, I’m voting D.
Not surprising that Warren and Bernie were at the bottom of my list. I’m surprised that Yang was so high up.
Warren/Yang tied at the top, Gabbard/Biden/Bloomberg at the bottom. As it happens, I do like Elizabeth Warren and am not a huge fan of any of those bottom three, but the quiz was next to useless in assessing why, because (like all of these quizzes) it gets way too into picayune “policy” details. Like, if they asked my opinion on rich people who run quixotic vanity campaigns as a personal hobby, I’m guessing Yang would not have been so high, and that’s a bigger issue for me than a lot of the nitpicky crap they tried to pin me down on.
Warren, who is my preferred candidate.