Customize Your Vote

L.C. sent us this interesting quiz.  You answer a number of questions about current issues, and it ranks presidential candidates in the order in which their stands agree with yours.

The Select A Candidate Quiz was developed by Minnesota Public Radio.

Some of the questions required answers on issues that there are no good answers to.  And you had to indicate how important each issue was to you.

I was pretty surprised at how mine turned out:

Dennis Kucinich (D)
Bill Richardson (D)
Chris Dodd (D)
John Edwards (D)
Mike Gravel (D)
Joe Biden (D)
Hillary Clinton (D)
Barack Obama (D)
Mitt Romney (R)
Rudy Giuliani (R)
Sam Brownback (R)
Bill Gilmore (R)
Mike Huckabee (R)
Ron Paul (R)
Duncan Hunter (R)
Fred Thompson (R)
Tom Tancredo (R)
John McCain (R)

Some I've frankly never heard of.  I'd have expected myself to be aligned more closely with Hillary or Barack, and I've always liked Joe Biden.

You can go here to see the market values of individual Democratic candidates.  Woohoo, Al Gore's trading third.  If he were running, I'll bet it would be a lot higher. 

[Image from Pamela on Politics]

Comments

[Houston]

I took the quiz last week or so, and surprise, surprise! Kucinich was first on my list as well. The only thing with which I found myself in agreement with the Republican candidates was the line-item veto. Would I want to give it to Bush? No. Do I think a different President should have it? I think so. I also disagreed with most of the Democrats around the government's support of giant agri-businesses under the guise of "developing bio-fuels." Can we say "ethanol"? It makes food more expensive in the rest of the world, and our supplementing the growth of corn or the development of it mostly supports large corporations or wealthy individuals.

I am not a Democrat, even though I've never voted for anyone but Democrats for at least the past 40-something years.

[Stryder]

All of the Republicans ended up at the bottom of my list. My top was Chris Dodd. Hillary and Barak were 2 and 3.

I'm not going to let myself get hopeful about the upcoming election. It just hurts too much to have those hopes dashed on the rocks of stupidity, greed and hypocrisy.

[Houston]

We must not surrender to bitter cynicism in politics, life or our credit card debt. In the words of my cultural icon, "Afterall, tomorrow is another day."