A few weeks ago, I published a link to a “presidential selector” … After my post on Michael Vick and dog fighting, it has been the most popular on this blog. Well, I really didn’t think much of that original selector and found this SelectSmart site instead.
With questions on 26 issues, it asks for your position and how important it is to you. Here are my results (with percentage of positions that match my own):
1. Dennis Kucinich (81%)
2. Joseph Biden (78%)
3. Barack Obama (77%)
4. Hillary Clinton (76%)
5. John Edwards (74%)
6. Christopher Dodd (71%)
7. Al Gore* (70%)
8. Wesley Clark* (70%)
9. Mike Gravel (65%)
10. Bill Richardson (62%)
11. Michael Bloomberg* (62%)
12. Ron Paul (45%)
13. Tommy Thompson* (31%)
14. John McCain (29%)
15. Mike Huckabee (29%)
16. Rudolph Giuliani (24%)
17. Alan Keyes (24%)
18. Tom Tancredo (20%)
19. Chuck Hagel* (20%)
20. Mitt Romney (20%)
21. Newt Gingrich* (17%)
22. Duncan Hunter (15%)
23. Fred Thompson (13%)
24. Sam Brownback* (12%)
25. Stephen Colbert* (3%)
* not running, withdrawn, not yet announced
The best feature comes at the end, when you can do a side-by-side comparison of two candidates on the issues. For the biggest laughs, compare anyone to Stephen Colbert. Amazingly funny stuff.
Visit the site here and leave a comment with your results and if you were surprised by the results.
2 Comments
November 20, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I was not surprised to find that I shared the largest percentage of similar views with Dennis Kucinich also – he really does embody what the Democratic party should (and once did) stand for.
On December 15th, Dennis Kucinich supporters plan to donate as much money as possible in order to show support for America’s best Democratic candidate. A large enough donation will force the mainstream media to give more serious attention to Kucinich as a real contender in this election. Let’s show them that he has the support of the people!
Watch: http://alternet.org/blogs/video/68202/
Read: http://www.dennis4president.com/….com/go/issues/
Act: http://www.december152007.com/
November 20, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I was not surprised to find that I also shared the largest percentage of views as Dennis Kucinich – he really does embody what the Democratic party should (and once did) stand for.
On December 15th, Dennis Kucinich supporters plan to donate as much money as possible in order to show support for America’s best Democratic candidate. A large enough donation will force the mainstream media to give more serious attention to Kucinich as a real contender in this election. Let’s show them that he has the support of the people!
Watch: http://alternet.org/blogs/video/68202/
Read: http://www.dennis4president.com/….com/go/issues/
Act: http://www.december152007.com/