The questions were disappointing. Nothing on gun control, infrastructure, outsourcing, etc.
Post-Modern, along with the other intelligent, gifted and good-looking 13% of the population.
I agree, a lot of poor questions. For instance, good diplomacy is better than having to fight a war, but it helps to have the military strength to back up the diplomacy. Anyway, another Solid Liberal, but there were a lot of poor questions. The problem with these things (along with the need to make it short and snappy, so they don’t ask a lot of questions) is that there is very little nuance.
Solid Liberal, which is exactly what I would have answered before I took the test.
This confirmed something I’ve thought for a while: law school made me slightly more conservative (which is a million miles from what it does to most people.)
Me too. How you doin’? 
Yep. There were several where the more liberal choice was a bit extreme but not as troublesome as the one in the other direction. Very B & W without any gray. Not to my liking.
Before taking the poll I would have said Solid Liberal. My results after the poll? Solid Liberal, along with 14% of the public. 
Solid Liberal.
I voted in the poll (Libertarian) before seeing that there was a ‘test’.
According to the Pew folks, I’m ‘Post-Modern’. I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to be. Looking at their definition, I think it’s because I’m a bit more accepting of the role of government in society than the ‘typical’ Libertarian (which is to say, I do think that there should ***be ***a government in the first place ).
But I didn’t care for their poll at all; far too many false dichotomies.
Solid Liberal
Solid liberal, according to them. I had some problems with their questionnaire, though.
For instance, #4: “The best way to ensure peace is through military strength” v. “Good diplomacy is the best way to ensure peace.” Gimme both, please. I’d rather not use military strength unless there’s no way to avoid it, but I’d like to have it in my back pocket.
Or #6: “The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt” v. “The government today can’t afford to do much more to help the needy.” Actually, the economics of it during the past five years have been that we can’t afford NOT to do more to help the needy.
I won’t critique the whole thing, but there were more like that.
I’d self-characterize as a small-d democrat. I don’t mind if the majority of the people see things differently than I do. But I want the rich to quit playing an outsized role in our politics.
Semi-solid Liberal.
Solid Liberal.
Except that I am a centrist democrat. But how much nuance can you expect from black or white, no room for middle questions.
Heh. That’s a fair descriptor of my own politics, and I got Po-Mo too, so that seems to be it.
And yeah, no room for nuanced positions in the poll.
Libertarian.
Drunkard
This. At least 25% I answered under protest, on the grounds of not enough nuance.
And ended up Solid Liberal anyway.
Post-modern “Weird for the sake of weird” 
The description is a little uncomfortable. Is post-modern a code word for “New York or San Francisco trust fund hipster”? Hard-pressed seems to mean “Appalachia Blue Collar,” and Disaffected is “Had Kids by 18.”
It’s supposed to be that way, I think. Some other tests use Likert scales. I like the forcing (no “I don’t care”), but not the dichotomy. #3 is basically telling you to answer either: “I believe affirmative action is 110% correct!” or “Man, those ethnic types sure are lazy!” I’m certainly not doing that one.
Answer these to which one you disagree with less.
They have how the groups vote on those things in the end. I have done this quiz 3 times maybe, the first had different groups. But I don’t remember the questions being so monolithic, either on economics, whether you like the gov, and how apathetic you are.
Solid Liberal, though I thought most of the binary characterizations were inane.
I got Solid Liberal, though I echo the objections of others to many aspects of this quiz. My being British makes much of it even less applicable than it might be otherwise. Actually, I do not think of myself as a liberal (even in the American sense of that word) but as a democratic socialist, a perfectly respectable, mainstream political option in most of the world, but not, it seems, even an imaginable possibility for the American creators of this poll.