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Which Candidate Do You ‘Match’ The Most?

I found this over on Wired.com -- it's a quiz patterned after online matching services that lets you walk through a series of questions and then tells you which presidential candidates you're most similar to. Supposedly non-partisan and so on. (It's amazing what grants will fund, eh? :-)

Check it out at Glassbooth.org. Praise: It's great to see something focused on issues vs. the horserace. Complaints: it's a little black-and-white in the way it rates your similarities to candidates and it's "issue weighting" test at the beginning seems to work against people who care about most issues. (Hint: to answer the most questions, give each issue a 1 first, then add a few points to the issues you care the most about.)

 
posted by itodd on 01/03/08 at 08:16 AM. [printer version]    Share |

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Anyone else freaked out by who they matched? Here I am, a mild-mannered, pro-free enterprise un-Randian live-and-let-live libertarian with a heart of gold and an understanding of cost-benefit analysis in good government...and my match is Senator Chris Dodd.

Great. Talk about a match made in heaven. I'm swooning over My Man Dodd. His slogan:

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OK, that's not really his slogan. Still...seems to offer a mixed message.

I took the test a second time and tried being a complete terd, hatin' on everything and everybody, being *against* everything that would help people and *for* everything that would hurt 'em.

Came out best matched with Mike Huckabee. Who knew?

posted by iTodd on 01/03/08 at 03:21 PM

OK, I matched closest to Kucinich, at 85%. However, not far behind were matches with Obama (80%) and Edwards and Clinton (79%). It guess that also shows that there's not that much difference between Obama, Clinton and Edwards on thes issues.

posted by Kacy on 01/04/08 at 12:23 PM

My candidate dropped out last night, so I suppose this race is over for me. Good luck to all of you and your "best match" candidates.

posted by iTodd on 01/04/08 at 12:48 PM

I ain't taking this test. All I know and care about is that I'm for whatever is good for most people. I'd like to think this is why I'm a democrat.

posted by Ray Carter on 01/04/08 at 01:00 PM

Todd "General Lee" Chandler has been demoted. Where is Adam's colum of yesterday about the firemen flonking their test or the column on Chandler so that I can post this there.

posted by Ray Carter on 01/04/08 at 01:13 PM

My best match didn't drop out last night but I'm pretty sure he won't make it to Super Tuesday. The candidate I'm actually supporting was 4th place in my matches.

posted by msgrits on 01/04/08 at 02:05 PM

My best match was Huckabee. We matched on most everything except the death penalty, but I consider that a really important issue.

posted by Lady Havoc on 01/04/08 at 02:38 PM

Edwards was my best match at 86%, followed by Kucinich at 84% and Clinton at 81%. Obama comes in at 76%.

posted by L.W. on 01/04/08 at 08:26 PM

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