# Who did you "side with" this election? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294 "2016-03-27T00:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/1 "2016-03-27T00:37:14Z")
I just got reminded of the existence of [ISideWith.com](http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/), and took the quiz this year. I wound up with a much higher correlation than I have in any year before. I 97% agree with Clinton, 97% with Sanders, 46% with Kasich, 25% with Trump, and 15% with Cruz. I wonder if it’s like this for others–more corelation with the side you prefer, and less with the side you don’t. So I decided to make a poll. It’s more nuanced than asking who is on top. \*\*Please vote for all five current candidates. \*\* I considered also asking who you sided with most, but decided against it due to already having so many poll options. Who you are closest to isn’t as interesting to me as how close you are to them. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/2 "2016-03-27T00:50:14Z")
Link does not work, I think this one will: > **[2016 Presidential Quiz](https://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential-quiz)** > > Answer the following questions to see who you should vote for in the 2016 Presidential election. My results: 95% Sanders, 93% Clinton, 21%Trump, 19% Ted Cruz. Did not show any results for Kasich BTW. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/3 "2016-03-27T00:56:03Z")
Was also about to offer a working link. 100% Clinton; 97% Sanders; 61% Kasich; 28% Cruz; 5% Trump. Voted. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/4 "2016-03-27T00:59:02Z")
100% (!) Sanders, 97% Clinton, 51% Kasich, 21% Cruz, 16% Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/5 "2016-03-27T01:09:58Z")
97% Sanders, 93% Clinton, 70% Kasich, 41% Trump, 21% Cruz ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/6 "2016-03-27T01:11:58Z")
Interesting that my results are not all that different for any candidate, especially seeing the wide spreads other people are reporting. 83 Hillary, 79 Sanders, 73 Kasich, 70 Cruz, 67 Trump Frankly, those numbers seem high. I feel more like I should be subtracting 50 from each of them… but the overall ordering is probably correct. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/7 "2016-03-27T01:17:46Z")
I am the usual nonconformist…although I didn’t go in-depth and answer the extra questions for each issue. Clinton 92%, Sanders 92%, Kasich 61%, Trump 52% (really???), Cruz 44%. Note that my results from the website are not the same as in the poll above; I did a subjective vote in that before I actually went to the website. Full results: Clinton 92%, Sanders 92%, Jill Stein 88%, Gary Johnson 84%, John McAfee 66%, Kasich 61%, Austin Petersen 53%, Trump 52%, Darryl W. Perry 51%, Cruz 44%. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/8 "2016-03-27T01:40:07Z")
94 Bernie 93 Hillary 91 Jill Stein 68 Gary Johnson 53 Trump 21 Cruz ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/9 "2016-03-27T01:48:56Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > My results: 95% Sanders, 93% Clinton, 21%Trump, 19% Ted Cruz. Did not show any results for Kasich BTW. Doh! There is a “Show all candidates” button at the end of the ones being shown, Kasich appears there for me at 56%, Jill Stein of the Green Party shows at 86%. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/10 "2016-03-27T02:07:40Z")
Bernie 99% Hillary 97% Stein 97% Johnson 75% Kasich 60% Trump 23% Cruz 18% ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/11 "2016-03-27T03:22:39Z")
Clinton 99%, Sanders 98%. Not very informative! ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/12 "2016-03-27T04:21:55Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Clinton 99%, Sanders 98%. > > Not very informative! Actually quite informative. It seems of note to me that no one so far has their spread between Sanders and Clinton greater than 4, very closely clustered. Yet the difference between Sanders and Trump or Cruz is, with so far only one person as an exception, over 40. Huh. Eh? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/13 "2016-03-27T04:29:11Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Actually quite informative. It seems of note to me that no one so far has their spread between Sanders and Clinton greater than 4, very closely clustered. Yet the difference between Sanders and Trump or Cruz is, with so far only one person as an exception, over 40. > > Huh. Eh? Yip. The reason I was reminded of this website was someone saying something similar. They mentioned the website as evidence that there’s not really all that much difference between Sanders and Clinton on the issues. I was just surprised my score was above 95% on anyone. So, despite what people say about this election, for me it’s actually a pretty good one. No matter how it shapes out, I can vote for someone who agrees with me 98%. I do wish they’d also have a list that told you where you disagree with the candidates, though. When you agree at 98%, a list of where you disagree is far more useful. Edit: And thanks, **GIGO**. That’s what I get for not testing the link. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/14 "2016-03-27T04:56:04Z")
96% Hillary Clinton 95% Sanders 71% Gary Johnson 57% Kasich 54% Ted Cruz 12% Donald Trump Go Ted Go! (To see Kasich, click “See all candidates”.) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/15 "2016-03-27T05:08:14Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > 96% Hillary Clinton > 95% Sanders > 71% Gary Johnson > 57% Kasich > 54% Ted Cruz > 12% Donald Trump > > Go Ted Go! > (To see Kasich, click “See all candidates”.) I am very curious how you got Cruz to not only be higher than Trump, but buy such a large margin, and yet still have Clinton and Sanders so high. You’d think you’d have to be a conservative to get Cruz so high. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/16 "2016-03-27T05:50:12Z")
98% - Bernie 96% - Hillary 96% - Jill Stein 84% - Gary Johnson 54% - Kasich 24% - Cruz 24% - Trump ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/17 "2016-03-27T06:13:00Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I am very curious how you got Cruz to not only be higher than Trump, but buy such a large margin, and yet still have Clinton and Sanders so high. You’d think you’d have to be a conservative to get Cruz so high. You can alter the results dramatically if you take the time to “weight” each question (left hand column), and choose “some other stance” to personalize your answers. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/18 "2016-03-27T08:31:38Z")
Sanders 92% Clinton 90% Stein 90% McAfee 72% Johnson 68% Perry 63% Petersen 59% Kasich 31% Cruz 19% Trump 17% Of those, the only ones I’d consider voting for are Clinton and Sanders, with Clinton being my first choice. The others are either fringe-party lunatic (Stein the Green and all the Libertarians between Stein and Kasich) or mainstream lunatic (every Republican) on one or more issues I care about, and I’m not a fan of Sanders’ positions on nuclear power and GMO foods. It’s funny, though: I actually expected Trump to be higher than Cruz, given that Trump’s positions are so scattershot and Cruz is Ayatollah Kochmani. They’re both down in the noise, but it’s still interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/19 "2016-03-27T11:33:49Z")
John McAfee - 85% Darryl W. Perry - 80% Gary Johnson - 80% Ted Cruz - 79% Bernie Sanders - 71% Donald Trump - 67% Hillary Clinton - 61% John Kasich - 53% For Donald Trump to be above 50%, it’s clear that I could not give sufficient weight to certain policies. You really can’t oversell my opposition to certain things like torture as a means of gathering intelligence unless the question is “Should a President who supports this policy be executed by firing squad, or by being burned alive?” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294/20 "2016-03-27T12:00:34Z")
Sanders 95% Clinton 93% Trump 37% Cruz 30% Not terribly surprised except for…Ted Cruz?! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-you-side-with-this-election/750294.md?page=2)