# Your political leanings **URL:** \ **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:** 3
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/41 "2013-10-22T11:56:57Z")
This Conservative/Liberal Canadian came down: Green - 78% Dem - 75% Socialist - 62% Libertarian - 44% GOP - 2% I’ll admit I’m not the hardest Conservative in the world but christ that’s much further to the American left than I anticipated. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/42 "2013-10-22T13:56:29Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > It is very strange. I took it again and not only was the layout different than the first time, but many of the questions were too. I think they made a change while this thread was in progress. My results were quite different as well and not something I agree with superficially based on the last one I took. I answered almost every question ‘other choices’ rather than a simple yes/no and I am not sure how it weights those. Good point. I also answered a lot of questions as “other choices”. Maybe they just disregard those. 🙂 Actually, I thought those were the ones that let you play the libertarian card. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/43 "2013-10-22T15:16:37Z")
I took it twice and got some different questions and different results. So it definitely changes with each taking. You definitely need to open up the alternative answers to get at the Libertarian views. Republican - 80% Libertarian - 66% Dem - 5% Green - 2% Socialist - 1% I’m surprised a bit that Republican is higher than Libertarian. Lib actually had more categories of agreement than Repub did. “Economic, Social and Healthcare Issues” vs Immigration for Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/44 "2013-10-22T16:14:38Z")
Democrats 84% Green Party 77% Socialist 55% Libertarians 30% Republicans 9% Surprised Socialist is higher than Libertarian. I used to think I was small-L libertarian. Apparently my thinking the environment is important makes me not welcome. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/45 "2013-10-22T16:27:36Z")
I get different questions, different look and feel to the importance interface, and different results every time. Now I get: Green (who cares?) 98% Democratic 96% Socialist 83% Libertarian (vomit) 28% Republican (double vomit) 0% President Jill Stein (who?) 95% Rocky Anderson (who?) 81% Obama 78% Johnson (who?) 61% Ron Paul (vomit) 1% Romney (double vomit) 0% Senator Stabenow 76% Boman (who?) 31% Hoekstra (vomit) 24% ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/46 "2013-10-22T16:28:56Z")
Dem: 79 Green: 73 Soc: 37 Lib: 36 Rep: 20 ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/47 "2013-10-22T16:31:16Z")
74% Dems 65% Green 55% Socialist 13% Libertarian 3% Republican That seems about right. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/48 "2013-10-22T16:31:49Z")
84% Democrats 80% Greens 54% Socialist 12% Republican 7% Libertarian About what you’d expect for a left-leaning Brit, I suppose. And on the individual issues i’m Green/Democrat except for Domestic Policy, where i’m Republican, apparently. It seems like those alternative options give much stronger influences to your total than you’d expect. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/49 "2013-10-22T17:37:21Z")
Green - 90 Dem – 88 Socialist – 60 Libertarian – 31 Republican - 2 I would be interested to know on what basis they decided where each group stands on the issues they cite. I suspect that they went with the parties’ official platforms. Problem is, a party’s official platform is not always the basis on which they act politically. For example, I am most in agreement with the Democrats on economic issues. Well, I have left the Democratic Party precisely because of economic issues … I feel that they are owned by Wall Street, and whatever they SAY they will do on economic issues, they will in fact do whatever Wall Street gives them leave to do. But as there is nothing on the site providing information about how they determined the parties’ positions, it’s hard to say on what basis the comparison is being made. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/50 "2013-10-22T18:00:12Z")
I’m apparently pretty moderate, although by the standards around here, you’d think I’m Dick Cheney and Karl Rove’s love slave. Democrats: 62% Republicans: 52% Green Party: 46% Socialist: 34% Libertarian: 28% ---
**Author:** ![2sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e47774/32.png) [@2sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2sense)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/51 "2013-10-23T20:11:23Z")
97% Democrats 96% Green Party 77% Socialist 31% Libertarians 0% Republicans ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/52 "2013-10-23T20:38:59Z")
81% - Democrats on economic, healthcare, social, science, and domestic policy issues 72% - Green Party on social, economic, and science issues 61% - Socialist on social and economic issues 56% - Libertarians on domestic policy and immigration issues 41% - Republicans on foreign policy, immigration, and environmental issues ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/53 "2013-10-24T19:40:20Z")
No surprise 99% Dem 96% Green 78% Socialist 7% Lib 0% Repub I side with Democrats on every issue but Foreign policy and current events. The last is confusing. By being against Firing Sibelius over the Obamacare website failure I apparently agree with no party, not even the Democrats. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/54 "2013-10-24T20:29:40Z")
Republicans 96% Libertarians 31% Green Party 23% Democrats 2% Socialist 0% ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/55 "2013-10-24T23:03:48Z")
Libertarian 83 Green 58 Rep 54 Dem 25 I have almost purged myself of the evil. Only 25% to go. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/56 "2013-10-25T03:08:18Z")
Democrats 92% on economic, foreign policy, domestic policy, social, environmental, science, healthcare, and immigration issues Green Party 83% on social, domestic policy, environmental, healthcare, science, and immigration issues Socialist 58% on social, healthcare, and immigration issues Libertarians 28% on domestic policy issues Republicans 5% on pretty much nothin’ Jill Stein and Barack Obama pretty much split my presidential vote, Rocky Anderson (Justice) a distant third - and no party or person agrees with me on the “current events” issue: Should Kathleen Sebelius be fired because [healthcare.gov](http://healthcare.gov) doesn’t work right? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/57 "2013-10-25T05:43:42Z")
If you have NoScript, make sure it’s completely off! When I did it the first time, I couldn’t select the alternate options (hence me thinking the answers were sometimes BS), the importance was a drop down instead of a horizontal image, and it didn’t hide options. Somewhat different results this time: D - 72% - Science, Econ\*, environment, immigration L - 71% - domestic, social, healthcare, immigration G - 59% - science, healthcare R - 31% - no major issues S - 13% - healthcare and immigration Interesting that immigration shows up, I consider myself to be “to the right” of most democrats there. Domestic is no surprise to me. Sided with nobody on current events, which was only one question, and I’m not sure what the relevance was. Apparently they all think the shutdown was a good thing? With the expanded options, so user-submitted ones were stupid. Like originally, it was: “Do you support expanding ICE to kick all Martians out?” A: Yes/No. With new options it’s Yes/Yes, kick them out/No/No, keep them here. How are the new ones different? \*by far the section I care the least about ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/58 "2013-10-31T13:08:03Z")
I got sort of a shotgun spread between dems/green/libertarian. But I’m clean of the Republican taint, so I can live with it. Greens are generally too into imposing traditionally liberal ideas for me, and I like a bit more control than the libertarians want, so I guess Dem it is. But like most folks here, no surprises. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/59 "2013-10-31T13:33:34Z")
I’m pretty lefty, with a 95% Democrat, 82% Green and only 7% Republican result. But I picked a lot of “choose another stance” options. I’m particularly annoyed at the question about whether the federal government should require insurance companies to “provide free birth control”; I’m pretty sure doctors and pharmacies do the providing and insurance companies do (or do not) cover the costs, just like any other medication. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808/60 "2013-10-31T16:31:41Z")
92% Democrat. Apparently, completely unbeknownst to me, I’m as Liberal a Lib who ever did Lib. I shall adjust my personal identity politics and worldview accordingly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-political-leanings/671808.md?page=4)