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.
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14 comments:

  1. avkNovember 6, 2007 at 12:02 AM

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

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  2. Hose JuanNovember 6, 2007 at 1:24 AM

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

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  3. avkNovember 6, 2007 at 2:19 AM

    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?

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  4. QhorinNovember 6, 2007 at 6:45 AM

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

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  5. Hose JuanNovember 6, 2007 at 8:07 AM

    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

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  6. Hose JuanNovember 6, 2007 at 8:08 AM

    bah, it cropped it

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

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  7. avkNovember 6, 2007 at 8:49 AM

    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.

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  8. w1ndst0rmNovember 6, 2007 at 11:55 AM

    NPR: 11.0 Paul, 7.0 McCain

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  9. Hose JuanNovember 6, 2007 at 1:11 PM

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

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  10. QhorinNovember 6, 2007 at 3:34 PM

    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.

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  11. Hose JuanNovember 6, 2007 at 3:58 PM

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

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  12. w1ndst0rmNovember 6, 2007 at 5:54 PM

    Have some canidates made statements on ID?

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  13. QhorinNovember 6, 2007 at 6:02 PM

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

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

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  14. UnknownNovember 6, 2007 at 8:07 PM

    I came up Colbert across the board.

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