Presidential candidates meme

[davidlevine]

94% Dennis Kucinich
92% Mike Gravel
81% Barack Obama
79% John Edwards
79% Chris Dodd
78% Bill Richardson
77% Joe Biden
76% Hillary Clinton
34% Rudy Giuliani
30% Ron Paul
24% John McCain
19% Mitt Romney
18% Mike Huckabee
12% Tom Tancredo
11% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

This confirms my gut feel that Obama's my man, as neither Kucinich nor Gravel has a chance. Though I'm surprised Clinton scored so low. Giuliani's stated policies are, indeed, the closest to sane of the R's... it's his personal greed and corruption that make him so scary. My nightmare is a Giuliani/Clinton matchup, which is the only scenario I think the R's could win. Clinton has too much baggage and would rile up the right-wing hate machine, while Giuliani's "9/11 mayor" act could wow the yahoos who don't pay close attention.

Comments

[snippy]

Heh. My highest match is lower than your lowest Dem match. Still a Dem, though. And there's only a 7% difference between the Dem candidates on my views.

I'm clearly an outlier: I don't have a solid red/blue break, they're sprinkled throughout. Which I suppose arises out of my strong opinions about issues that break each way, like abortion and gun rights (I'm pro both, almost nobody else is--in fact you can use those two questions as a litmus test, almost all Dems are on one side of both issues and almost all Reps are on the other).

[chiefwirehead.livejournal.com]

Interesting quiz - I like the fact that you can weight your answers.

My top was Dodd, with Obama/Clinton/Edwards closely following about 1% apart each. Guiliani was my top R as well

Thompson was way, way, waywaywayway down at the bottom, followed closely by Ron Paul, Romney, and Huckabee. I don't have strong druthers for Obama vs. Clinton vs. Edwards, and I'm surprised the quiz matched that.
Actually, there wasn't much of a spread from top to bottom for D at all (97->99), so the bottom D had about 2x the points as the top R.

I'm afraid I agree with your analysis about the baggage, though.

[chiefwirehead.livejournal.com]

whoops, that should be 97->79%