I got this link to a quiz from a colleague that asks a series of questions and based on the responses, determines which US political party one might identify with. Since it was raining too hard to go for my lunchtime walk, I took a shot at it and from my responses it was determined that I was a Democratic-Green-Socialist, with a bit (35%) of Libertarian. :dubious:
Anyway, a bit of fluff for anyone with 10 free minutes. I was reluctant to put this in the Elections forum, thinking that it was not very rigorous, so feel free to report it to a mod for a forum change or even outright deletion.
I didn’t answer all the questions, as a lot of it was stuff I didn’t have opinions about being British, but…logged me as Democratic, which makes sense.
Great surprise- I identify with Democrats and Greens, with Republicans being dead last on the list. Pretty good quiz, though I question the appropriateness of the last question- does favoring the dam because you like infrastructure projects make you a Democrat or does favoring McConnell’s pork nibble make you a Republican? I just don’t see that as a good indicator. Ditto for the space program.
Did you know…? 17 years ago I worked on the Steve Forbes (Presidential primary) and Newt Gingrich (Congress) election campaigns back in 1996. And now I’m testing 79% Green and 54% Socialist. Go figure.
Greens and Dems 91 & 90% respectively, on virtually all issues. Socialist 64% on social and healthcare issues, Libertarian 33% on foreign policy issues only. Republicans, 1%.
No big surprises for me either. I used to belong to the Greens before I realized how pointless it was.
So, they gave me Republican for immigration even though I voted for temporary amnesty in the quiz - it’s just that unless we change the laws, I think we should enforce the laws that we have on the books.
I got Dem 92%, Green 84%, Socialist 68%, Libertarian 20%, and Republican 2%. No real surprise, there.
Also unsurprisingly, I found that I was going for the “show more options” on most of them, and even so found many of them a bit lacking in nuance.
And my last question was an open-response “What is a question that should be asked of Ohioans?”, or something like that, so I suspect that the last question varies based on what state it detects you as being in, and they don’t have any good Ohio questions yet. I didn’t enter anything, because I think the most important question for Ohioans is “How should gerrymandering be fixed?”, which isn’t conducive to yes-or-no answers.
EDIT: Oh, and I’m also disappointed that the “show more options” under “Do you support the Affordable Care Act?” didn’t include an option for preferring Obamacare instead. By which I mean the plan that Obama actually wanted, the one with the public option.
I think the Republican one is a by-product of the way the questions are worded. So, do I think Illegal Immigrants deserve amnesty? No. But then I think immigration should be unlimited to this country, which is almost certainly not what the Republicans would stand for.
I did think it’s a little odd that I can be 90+% with the Dems and Greens and still be 50+% with the Libertarians. Or 70% with Socialists and 50% with Libertarians. That’s a lot of overlap for pretty different parties.
