Tell Me Who I Like
The SelectSmart Candidate Selector is up & running. It seems to give pretty good results sometimes. Here’s how it scored me:
(100%) 1: Sen. Barack Obama (D)
(88%) 2: Gov. Bill Richardson (D)
(84%) 3: Ex-VP Al Gore (D)
(82%) 4: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D)
(81%) 5: Retired Gen. Wesley Clark (D)
(75%) 6: Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) Withdrew from race.
(72%) 7: Sen. Joseph Biden (D)
(69%) 8: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D)
(68%) 9: Ex-Sen. John Edwards (D)
(68%) 10: Rep. Ron Paul (R)
(66%) 11: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D)
(54%) 12: Sec. Condoleezza Rice (R)
(49%) 13: Gov. George Pataki (R)
(47%) 14: Sen. John McCain (R)
(44%) 15: Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R)
(43%) 16: Gov. Mitt Romney (R)
(42%) 17: Gov. Mike Huckabee (R)
(40%) 18: Sen. Chuck Hagel (R)
(34%) 19: Ex-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R)
(30%) 20: Sen. Sam Brownback (R)
(24%) 21: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R)
(23%) 22: Rep. Tom Tancredo (R)
Interesting. Noteworthy perhaps that Hillary’s the only (D) to fall below an (R) — though I would probably actually rank the (R) in question much higher. Here’s an off the cuff take on how I think I might actually rank ‘em, leaving out the ones I just don’t know enough about, and adding in a few candidates and/or potential candidates that are missing. Admittedly Mr. Richardson’s position may be elevated somewhat by his actually having a (granted, remote) shot at the thing. And Mr. Nader might not be so high if that film weren’t fresh on my mind. Anyway –
Bill Richardson (D)
John Mackey (L)
Ralph Nader (I)
Al Gore (D)
Barry Hess (L)
Steve Kubby (L)
Jello Biafra (G)
Ron Paul (R)
Barack Obama (D)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
Doug Stanhope (L)
George Phillies (L)
Ed Thompson (L)
Wesley Clark (D)
John Edwards (D)
Chuck Hagel (R)
Hillary Clinton (D)
Condoleezza Rice (R)
George Pataki (R)
Rudy Giuliani (R)
Newt Gingrich (R)
Mitt Romney (R)
NOTA
John McCain (R)
Mike Huckabee (R)
Sam Brownback (R)
Duncan Hunter (R)
Tom Tancredo (R)
Update: This reminded me why Dr. Paul needs to at least be higher than Obama. Meanwhile this reminded me that Hagel needs to top the rest of the Republicans (a term which I’ve decided might as well include Hillary).
Update2: Just read up on Huckabee — dropped him below NOTA. The idiot is a creationist AND apparently, according to CATO, not even up to par on economics. Next.
That’s an odd questionnaire. My top choice is Richardson, too but it put him as #5 behind Obama (100%), Kucinich, Gore, and Edwards. Brownback got a big 0%, which was no surprise. And the top Republican on my list was Romney, which was a surprise.
Tell Me Who I Like…
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Yeah, it was an odd questionnaire. I think it was better in ‘04 if I remember correctly. I suppose it might become more refined as things get closer,
Part of the problem I suppose is that no quiz can be very good at matching some of the more intangible things like personality and so forth … for example it scored McCain as one of the better Republicans for me, but he comes off to me as a weasel and I would literally write in NOTA before I’d vote for him.
Then of course there’s ‘flip flopping’ to account for — I might have liked the old socially liberal Gov of MA Romney, but not the New and Improved [sic] Pander-to-the-Evangelicals Romney. Not sure which one they used for the test : )
Loved the questions. No bias there. LOL