Which Candidate Are You Most Like?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/candidate-match-game

Huntsman 7/11 73.4%
Romney 4/11 53.4%
Gingrich 3/11 46.8%

Can the thread title be changed to “most like”

Doesn’t seem very meaningful to me, since I ended up with so many “none of the above”. Particularly annoying were questions about “What should be done about…” that didn’t offer an option of “Nothing; it’s fine the way it is”.

I end up with either Huntsman or Obama, though I admit some of the questions had no answers I could support.

Obama, then Huntsman and Paul. I’d have trouble deciding between Obama and Huntsman in a general election, but I’d vote for Obama over Paul, no contest. He has some great ideas, but he’s a nut on many others.

I post like this, but black people post like this.

I was ranked the same and would have the same trouble choosing between Hunstman and Obama. Same on Paul too - some really great ideas, but others, not so much.

Dodgy quiz, as often my preferred solution was somewhere near, but not identical to, one of the choices. Rather than pick a bunch of "none of the above"s I tried to pick the closest to my preferred policy wherever possible.

Results: Obama (61.5%), Paul (51%), Huntsman (30%).

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Another poll with insufficient response choices.

Anyway, my results were:

Obama: 81.5%
Huntsman: 31.6%
Paul: 27.9%

Obama 74%
Huntsman 43.6%
Romney 39.3%

It was a pretty steep drop-off though with Obama matching 7 of 11 then Huntsman with 3 and Romney with 2.

I swear, some people take internet quizzes just to complain about the quizzes. These aren’t court-admissible or anything :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah, stupid poll. Did anyone tweak the importance meter?

Paul: 47%
Obama/Huntsman: 38%

Done. In the future, please just report your post. That way a mod will see it faster.

I did. I didn’t put a lot of thought into it but did some gut-level adjustments.

Me, too. I tweaked Afghanistan and Defense spending up in importance, which probably upped my “Paul” factor since my position on those two are basically the same as his.

I just did, with the following result:

My original score
Obama: 81.5%
Huntsman: 31.6%
Paul: 27.9%

After tweaking
Obama: 77.2%
Huntsman: 30.5%
Paul: 26.4%

Hey, it’s kind of fun to see the candidates jump around when you adjust the importance meter after the fact! :slight_smile:

Yeah, although I was kind of surprised that my score for Obama dropped when I increased the importance of the Gay Marriage question.

You possibly (like me) actually selected the Ron Paul answer - that we don’t need a marriage amendment because it should be left to the states. The “Obama” answer is “No. Civil Unions are OK for gay couples but marriage should be between a man and a woman”.

Obama first, with (suprisingly) Gingrich as a distant second and (more surprisingly) Paul third.

Obama - 53.4%, 4 of 11 issues
Paul - 42.4%, 2 of 11 issues
Huntsman - 40.1%, 2 of 11 issues

So, I’m nothing much like any of them. What a surprise. That’s what happens when you’re a civil libertarian and the only high-profile candidates who give a rat’s ass about social issues are the ones who want to ban gay people and Mexicans. Guess I’m voting for Mike Gravel again, assuming he’s still alive in November.

Obama, Huntsman, Paul

The poll choices are probably limited because they only offer as a choice a stance that has already been made by one of the candidates. I would have voted on Gay Marriage “Gays deserve equal rights on all things, including marriage” but none of the candidates have made that their platforms.