Vote!
Take this Select a Candidate quiz. See which candidates are most aligned with your views and opinions, you might be surprised.
By the way, maybe you should Google Ron Paul. I’m not saying that you should vote for Ron Paul (well maybe you really should! hee hee). I’m just saying that you should really vote for a candidate that actually shares many of your views and opinions about the issues. And not just vote for someone because they are in the party you like or because they are a woman or black or a Mormon. That’s just silly.
1dan
wrote on 13 November 2007 at 14:51
I had Ron Paul with 45, then McCain, Tancredo, Hunter, Thompson, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, Richardson, Biden, Kucinich, Gravel, Dodd and then Obama, Clinton and Edwards tied for last with 3.
We only agreed on Marriage, though I’m sure for different reasons
2annahannah
wrote on 15 November 2007 at 12:04
i’ve tried twice, and the link no longer works. i vote for dan miller
3Carolyn
wrote on 15 November 2007 at 12:49
Please don’t vote my husband into office. I don’t wanna be the first lady! Politics = yucky.
By the way, I fixed the link.
4braden and kerry
wrote on 16 November 2007 at 0:10
that *is* silly. good thing we’re not doing that.
5braden and kerry
wrote on 16 November 2007 at 1:39
I got this link from Dad Miller and took it. I think it is one of the less specific rank-a-candidate tests out there. I will try to find a better one that I came across a couple of months ago when *if* I get the time.
When I took the quiz, it said Hunter then Thompson, thereby proving that it is bogus. I agree with some of Thompson’s issues, but I don’t like him very much as a candidate and as a political figure and this quiz doesn’t take that or other similar things into account. For instance, even if I agreed with Ron Paul on non-domestic issues (I don’t… not even close), I couldn’t stand to vote for him because I see what type of people he attracts (present company excepted) and that he is not willing to distance himself from - the holocaust deniers, 9-11 truthers, nazis et al. It also doesn’t allow for nuanced points of views on issues. For instance, my view on immigration is somewhere between the one that I selected (Tancredo’s view) and the next one. It, along with all the other questions, are complicated issues that cannot be encapsulated in just one radio-button question. Just my 48 cents.
-Braden-
PS - above was Kerry (we like using the same account, but it doesn’t differetiate who is posting, although you can usually tell because I tend to be more verbose in my comments, and she tends to be more intelligent. Pluse she doesn’t use the shift key.)
PSS - Just to further put out any fire that might develop from my above: I don’t think that all Ron Paul supporters are psychotic, as evidenced by the fact that otherwise-normal Dan and Carolyn seem to support him. Just that many of his supporters are extremely disturbing. Every candidate will have some wackos - it just so happens that Ron Paul has a whole lot more than his fair share.
6annahannah
wrote on 17 November 2007 at 12:05
I got obama, clinton and edwards tied for first, then dodd, kucinich!!!!, biden, richardson, gravel, huckabee, hunter, mccain, romney, tancredo, paul, giuliani, then thompson.
interesting. but there are some nuances like braden said that couldn’t be addressed by the answers. For instance, i think health care is a basic right, and that you shouldn’t be condemned to death from treatable diseases because you don’t have money for doctors. BUT, i don’t think the government is the one to run it as my first choicers think. I am against abortion, but i don’t think it should be criminalized. that ends up hurting women by back door abortions. it is nice to say that if there was no abortion everyone would just have their babies, but the reality is not so. just like if we refuse to let young or unmarried people to have access to birth control then they won’t have sex. i don’t believe that the statement about marriage belongs in the constitution. i agree with the concept, obviously, but i disagree that it should be constitutionalized.
i don’t know, is that enough??
7annahannah
wrote on 17 November 2007 at 12:07
no, i must say, in caps, NEVER WOULD I VOTE FOR KUCINICH!!!
8braden and kerry
wrote on 17 November 2007 at 13:55
Mom,
It sounds to me like you are an Orson Scott Card type of Democrat - a Mormon who sides with the compassionate section of the democratic ideals. Based on your explanation above, I can understand why you hold your views and I can respect that. I still would never vote for any of the current Democrat crop, but I can see how a Mormon can be a Democrat. I can also see how a Mormon can not want anything to do with the Repubs - I certainly don’t agree with some things that the GOP embraces.
Let me add in caps, NEVER WOULD I VOTE FOR KUCINICH!!!!
See? Politics is bringing us together.
-Braden-