Yay! An Internet Test To Tell Me Who To Vote For

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Flubber
Since I

- support right to choose and health care coverage
-hate mandatory sentencing even while I could support harsher sentences for certain crimes

I come out as closest to the Dems it seems--

The way the poll is written is interesting, very much in keeping with Fox's ideology, and makes it useless. Take 3 issues:

1) Health care: the only question is whether to spend more money on it. All the Dems agree on that, as do one or two Repubs (iirc); the real issue is how much and toward what end. So the question is laregely useless, and turns the health care question into a mere government spending question.

2) Guns. The question was whether you support an "absolute right" to own a gun. I guarantee that, with the possible exception of a GOP gadfly like Hunter, nobody in the race agrees with this statement -- the key is the word "absolute." But I'll bet all GOP candidates were scored on the "agree" side of the divide. Of course, that means that people with reading comprehension skills were told they agree with the Democrats, which is probably accurate.

3) Iraq. My favorite. The only question about Iraq was whether we should pull out and let the UN take over -- like this is even an option. But phrasing the question that way means that there would be less agreement with the Dems than there would be if they'd used a statement like "We should withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible," since it keeps anti-UN types in the GOP fold. Even Sloww, famously in favor of getting out of Iraq right now, may well have disagreed with the statement in the poll.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


The way the poll is written is interesting, very much in keeping with Fox's ideology, and makes it useless. Take 3 issues:

1) Health care: the only question is whether to spend more money on it. All the Dems agree on that, as do one or two Repubs (iirc); the real issue is how much and toward what end. So the question is laregely useless.

2) Guns. The question was whether you support an "absolute right" to own a gun. I guarantee that, with the possible exception of a GOP gadfly like Hunter, nobody in the race agrees with this statement -- the key is the word "absolute." But I'll bet all GOP candidates were scored on the "agree" side of the divide. Of course, that means that people with reading comprehension skills were told they agree with the Democrats, which is probably accurate.

3) Iraq. My favorite. The only question about Iraq was whether we should pull out and let the UN take over -- like this is even an option. But phrasing the question that way means that there would be less agreement with the Dems than there would be if they'd used a statement like "We should withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible," since it keeps anti-UN types in the GOP fold. Even Sloww, famously in favor of getting out of Iraq right now, may well have disagreed with the statement in the poll.

I never doubted that the poll is too inaccurate to be anything other than the bluntest measure of preferences. How about the drug question linking harsher sentences to morality ??

The questions give no mechanism to assess a nuanced position. The AA question was a good example of this too

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Exactly. The real function of the poll seems to be to get moderates to see themselves as Republicans.

[Lancer]

Hunter, Thompson both 40%

Hillary 30%! :barf:

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Exactly. The real function of the poll seems to be to get moderates to see themselves as Republicans.

I disagree. I see myself as a conservative and a solid repug, yet the highest repug I had was Rudy at only 43% and I'm seeing scores of over 70% from some of the Demonrats.

While I agree that this poll is pretty stupid and inaccurate, I dissagree that it's trying to push voters to vote repug.

[SlowwHand]

John McCain 43%
John Edwards 40%
Bill Richardson 38%

[LordShiva]

Sloww is a hippy liberal socialist

[SlowwHand]

May have been because I didn't go hard right or left, and a few I didn't lean either way.

[DaShi]

Typical liberal.

[Lancer]

libetyperal

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
John McCain 43%
John Edwards 40%
Bill Richardson 38%

Makes sense to me. The opinions I've seen you express on Poly tend to be moderate and populist; those are the 3 guys running moderate, populist campaigns.

I gotta know though, Sloww -- what were your numbers for Hilary?

[SlowwHand]

Higher than I would have thought. Not so many slots down. Maybe 33%.

[ricketyclik]

63% Chris Dodd
Democratic Sr Senator (CT) Dodd's answers


60% Dennis Kucinich
Democratic Representative (OH-10)


58% Hillary Clinton
Democratic Jr Senator (NY);
former First Lady


58% John Edwards
2004 Nominee for Vice President;
Former NC Senator

55% Joe Biden
Democratic Sr Senator (DE)

55% Mike Gravel
Former Senator (AK)

53% Barack Obama
Democratic Jr Senator (IL);
previously State Senator

40% Bill Richardson
Democratic NM Governor

30% John McCain
Republican Sr Senator (AZ);
2000 Primary Candidate for President

30% Ron Paul
Republican Representative (TX-14);
Libertarian nominee for President in 1988

20% Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City;
Republican Candidate for 2000 Senate (NY)

18% Fred Thompson
Former Republican Senator (TN)

15% Mitt Romney
Retiring Republican MA Governor

10% Mike Huckabee
Republican AR Governor

3% Duncan Hunter
Republican Representative (CA-52)

[Victor Galis]

70% Chris Dodd
65% Hillary Clinton
65% Dennis Kucinich
60% Barack Obama
55% John Edwards
53% Joe Biden
50% Mike Gravel
43% Bill Richardson

40% Ron Paul

30% Rudy Giuliani
25% John McCain
13% Mitt Romney
13% Fred Thompson
10% Mike Huckabee
5% Duncan Hunter

OK, I'm honestly surprised Ron Paul got that high.

[Imran Siddiqui]

55% Chris Dodd
Democratic Sr Senator (CT)

55% John Edwards
2004 Nominee for Vice President;
Former NC Senator

53% Hillary Clinton
Democratic Jr Senator (NY);
former First Lady

53% Bill Richardson
Democratic NM Governor

50% Barack Obama
Democratic Jr Senator (IL);
previously State Senator

48% Joe Biden
Democratic Sr Senator (DE)

45% Dennis Kucinich
Democratic Representative (OH-10)

40% Mike Gravel
Former Senator (AK)

35% Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City;
Republican Candidate for 2000 Senate (NY)

30% John McCain
Republican Sr Senator (AZ);
2000 Primary Candidate for President

23% Ron Paul
Republican Representative (TX-14);
Libertarian nominee for President in 1988

20% Mike Huckabee
Republican AR Governor

20% Fred Thompson
Former Republican Senator (TN)

15% Mitt Romney
Retiring Republican MA Governor

8% Duncan Hunter
Republican Representative (CA-52)