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Catastrophic Success

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Thursday, October 28, 2004

That's a Relief!!

SelectSmart.com has a quiz that polls your feelings on a range of issues and tries to match you up with your best candidate. If only I could get Mr. Theoretical to run. He sounds like a smart and (obviously) good-looking fellow. My results follow. I took it twice. After seeing a few questions I didn't remember answering in the review of my results, I felt I should take it again. However, I don't know that I answered the questions I did respond to exactly the same way since you must weight the importance of your answer as well as responding. Click the link to take it.

[First Results: I think these may be more accurate because the questions I didn't answer are oddly phrased]
1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Bush, President George W. - Republican (87%)
3. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (58%)
4. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (56%)
5. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (51%)
6. Badnarik, Michael - Libertarian (47%)
7. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (47%)
8. Peroutka, Michael - Constitution Party (40%)
9. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (35%)
10. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (30%)
11. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (19%)
12. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (18%)
13. Cobb, David - Green Party (14%)
14. Nader, Ralph - Independent (14%)
15. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (12%)
16. Brown, Walt - Socialist Party (10%)
17. Hagelin, Dr. John - Natural Law (9%)
18. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (3%)

[Second Result: Less agreement with Bush this time, but a negligible difference. Although Carl Mosely-Braun (odd name syntax aside) is moving up... Kerry moved down and Lieberman moved up. I said during the primaries, if the democrats selected Joe Lieberman, I would have a tough choice this November. As it is, they didn't and I don't. The Democrats can not nominate a centrist when everyone has to run to the left to have any chance of making it through the primaries. More extremists vote in the primaries (of both parties) than centrists. This is why the Democrats have such a hard time reaching Middle America.]
Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Bush, President George W. - Republican (80%)
3. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (57%)
4. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (56%)
5. Badnarik, Michael - Libertarian (54%)
6. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (47%)
7. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (45%)
8. Peroutka, Michael - Constitution Party (43%)
9. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (36%)
10. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (33%)
11. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (24%)
12. Cobb, David - Green Party (17%)
13. Nader, Ralph - Independent (17%)
14. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (16%)
15. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (14%)
16. Hagelin, Dr. John - Natural Law (9%)
17. Brown, Walt - Socialist Party (8%)
18. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (7%)