Monday, November 5, 2007

Who would you pick?

So I've been having a little fun playing with the candidate match sites listed on this Salon article:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/05/kucinich/

And have to admit I'm pretty surprised at how my results landed. On pretty much every one I got matched up with the angry old Alaskan.

14 comments:

avk said...

I don't see anything that looks like what you're talking about.

Hose Juan said...

Several links at the bottom of the article. They lead to quizzes that match you to a candidate.

avk said...

Umm, no there aren't. The only links are to three other Salon articles.

Are you a subscriber? Are you seeing subscriber content that I might not see?

I'm interested in participating. Can you provide direct links?

Qhorin said...

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/

Hose Juan said...

Strange, I'm not a subscriber.

Here are the links I saw.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/candidate-match-game.htm

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

Hose Juan said...

bah, it cropped it

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008
/candidate-match-game.htm

avk said...

Sweet.

NPR gives me Clinton/Dodd/Obama

USA Today gives me Gravel/Kucinich/Dodd

VA Joe gives me Kucinich/Gravel/Richardson

Wquad gives me Obama/Clinton/Kucinich.

Wow. That was depressing. Thanks, Hose.

w1ndst0rm said...

NPR: 11.0 Paul, 7.0 McCain

Hose Juan said...

What about you Waters? Are you a Ron Paul guy too?

Qhorin said...

MPR: McCain/Guliani
USA Today: Romney/Guliani
Vajoe: Kucinich/Guliani
Wqad: McCain/Guliani

Clearly, I want Rudy to come in 2nd.

Seriously, I don't think this things capture positions very well. I often found myself liking none of the choices. Also, while I may be against the death penalty and feel that it's important, I don't think a president has much ability to affect that in 4 years. Finally, a candidate's effectiveness with Congress and other groups is an important factor for me but is not captured.

Hose Juan said...

Certainly there are a lot of aspects left out. I was disappointed that none of the questions addressed evolution vs. intelligent design.

w1ndst0rm said...

Have some canidates made statements on ID?

Qhorin said...

Obama manages to speak convincingly about religion for 40 minutes while saying precisely nothing:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/faith/

Unknown said...

I came up Colbert across the board.

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