# Your political leanings
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 21, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808 "2013-10-21T12:09:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/1 "2013-10-21T12:09:54Z")
I got this [link to a quiz](http://www.isidewith.com/political-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.
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### Author:  [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/2 "2013-10-21T12:42:01Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/3 "2013-10-21T12:46:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/4 "2013-10-21T13:17:31Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> 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?
Dam? The final question on mine was if I approved on Congress. There was no question about a dam. 😕
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/5 "2013-10-21T13:22:16Z")
Haven’t done one of these in a year or three, so what the hell:
Party:
88% - Dems
79% - Green(?)
56% - Libs
54% - Socialist
18% - Repubs
Presidential Race:
84% - Obama
24% - Mitt Romney
(I’m ignoring the others)
2012 Senate Race:
57% - Paul Sadler (D)
19% - Ted Cruz ®
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.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/6 "2013-10-21T13:26:51Z")
> [@squeegee](#):
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> Dam? The final question on mine was if I approved on Congress. There was no question about a dam. 😕
OK, not sure if it was the last question, but there was a dam question. Or maybe I’m just a dam fool.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/7 "2013-10-21T13:59:47Z")
Green Party 89%
Democrats 88%
Socialist 66%
Libertarians 51%
Republican 18%
I left the “importance” sliders at the default position.
Wasn’t asked about any dams, so it appears that not everyone is getting the same questions.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/8 "2013-10-21T13:59:56Z")
95% Green, 87% Dem, not a surprise.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/9 "2013-10-21T14:48:49Z")
Democrat 93%, Green 79%, Socialist 66%.
No surprises.
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/10 "2013-10-21T15:34:42Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/11 "2013-10-21T15:47:22Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> OK, not sure if it was the last question, but there was a dam question. Or maybe I’m just a dam fool.
I think it was the ‘question of the day’ which changes. I got the dam question 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/12 "2013-10-21T16:17:44Z")
I didn’t.
Still…
Green 97%
D 95%
Socialist 80%(???)
Libertarian 24%
R 21%
I have my doubts.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/13 "2013-10-21T16:25:51Z")
Democrats: 82%
Green Party: 73%
Libertarians: 59%
Republicans: 52%
Socialists: 52%
> [@](#):
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> Current Events
> I side with Democrats on most domestic policy issues.
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> I side with Democrats on most healthcare issues.
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> I side with Green Party on most science issues.
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> I side with Green Party on most social issues.
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> I side with Democrats on most foreign policy issues.
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> I side with Republicans on most immigration issues.
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> I side with Democrats on most economic issues.
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> I side with Republicans , Democrats , and Green Party on most environmental issues.
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.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/14 "2013-10-21T16:28:12Z")
Green 98%
Dems 95%
Socialist 86%
Libertarians 54%
Republicans 1%
I’m assuming that’s some kind of Platonic “ideal Libertarian” instead of the Libertarians who support the GOP/Tea Party.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/15 "2013-10-21T16:45:57Z")
Democrats 93%
Green 75%
Socialist 59%
Libertarian 16%
Republican 5%
I did “side with Republicans on most immigration and most foreign policy issues.”
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/16 "2013-10-21T16:47:58Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> I’m assuming that’s some kind of Platonic “ideal Libertarian” instead of the Libertarians who support the GOP/Tea Party.
Yup, those people aren’t libertarians. They can say they are, but they might as well be saying they’re the King of England for all the truth it has.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/17 "2013-10-21T17:00:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/18 "2013-10-21T17:21:25Z")
I Got:
Democratic - 92%
Green - 92%
Socialist - 69% 🆒
Libertarian - 51%
Republican - 19%
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.
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### Author:  [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/19 "2013-10-21T17:24:55Z")
I know which party to register with after Wisconsin invades Canada.
Democrats 88 per cent
Green Party 88 per cent
Socialist 60 per cent
Libertarians 39 per cent
Republicans 6 per cent
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/20 "2013-10-21T17:40:45Z")
Democrats 82%
on economic, domestic policy, social, environmental, science, and immigration issues
Green Party 73%
on social, environmental, science, and immigration issues
Socialist 53%
on science, environmental, and immigration issues
Libertarians 36%
on healthcare issues
Republicans 13%
no major issues 😃
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