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Title: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Dilmah G on August 24, 2012, 10:16:37 pm
Linky: http://www.isidewith.com/presidential-election-quiz

G'day gents. Can anyone vouch for the veracity of this? At the very least, it's an interesting talking point.

Anyway, these are my results: (http://www.isidewith.com/results/61435381)

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I side with Jill Stein on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.


Candidates you side with...
96%: Jill Stein on domestic policy, social, environmental, foreign policy, economic, and science issues
89%: Barack Obama on social, environmental, domestic policy, science, economic, and healthcare issues
79%: Rocky Anderson on social, domestic policy, and environmental issues
34%: Ron Paul on foreign policy issues
2%: Mitt Romney no major issues
58%: American Voters on foreign policy, environmental, social, economic, science, and healthcare issues.

Who you side with by party...
99% Democratic
91% Green
41% Libertarian
1% Republican

Apologies if we've already got this posted somewhere. Also, I am a dirty partisan. What of it.  :D
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Ghostavo on August 24, 2012, 10:46:19 pm
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I side with Jill Stein on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Candidates you side with...
83% Jill Stein on science, domestic policy, economic, and foreign policy issues
72% Barack Obama on science, healthcare, foreign policy, immigration, economic, and environmental issues
59% Gary Johnson on domestic policy, immigration, and environmental issues
56% Ron Paul on domestic policy, foreign policy, and environmental issues
20% Mitt Romney on foreign policy issues
64% American Voters on domestic policy, science, foreign policy, immigration, social, economic, and environmental issues.

Who you side with by party...
90% Democratic
76% Green
24% Republican
18% Libertarian

Who you side with by issue...
I side the most with Ron Paul and Gary Johnson on domestic policy issues.
I side the most with Jill Stein on science issues.
I side the most with Barack Obama on foreign policy issues.
I side the most with Barack Obama on healthcare issues.
I side the most with Gary Johnson on immigration issues.
I side the most with Ron Paul, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney on social issues.
I side the most with Jill Stein on economic issues.
I side the most with Ron Paul, Barack Obama, and Gary Johnson on environmental issues.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: z64555 on August 24, 2012, 11:02:45 pm
Interesting website. I wonder how they generated the survey statistics...
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Dark Hunter on August 24, 2012, 11:17:41 pm
Candidates you side with...
88%
Mitt Romney
on domestic policy, healthcare, social, environmental, immigration, and economic issues
77%
Gary Johnson
on domestic policy, healthcare, economic, and immigration issues
76%
Ron Paul
on domestic policy, healthcare, immigration, and economic issues
66%
Barack Obama
on foreign policy, science, and immigration issues
60%
American Voters
on domestic policy, science, foreign policy, environmental, immigration, and economic issues.

79% Republican
67% Green
63% Libertarian
60% Democratic

Huh.

Pretty much what I expected, though I'm surprised I agree that much with the Green Party.

Then again, I don't know how accurate this quiz is. Only three questions per category seems like a rather nonrepresentative sample.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Dilmah G on August 24, 2012, 11:20:19 pm
Some sections have a few more, you just have to click on the down arrow on the sections that do. But yeah...I was pretty skeptical as to how they worked out the stats.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: karajorma on August 25, 2012, 12:25:04 am
Who the **** is Jill Stein and why do I agree with 86% of her policies apparently? :p
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Dilmah G on August 25, 2012, 12:28:08 am
My thoughts exactly. Made me think the Green Party was behind this one, especially since all of my friends churned out similar results. :P
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: karajorma on August 25, 2012, 12:31:39 am
Virgil Goode made me laugh. I agreed with him only 1%. And that was probably only on the "Puppies and kittens are cute" question. :p
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Klaustrophobia on August 25, 2012, 12:36:54 am
as political alignment tests go, that wasn't all that bad.  as soon as i saw the link i was starting to fuel up my flamethrower :P

so if any of you have ever noticed i rarely post more than once or twice in a political thread, here is why.


96%
Mitt Romney
on economic, domestic policy, immigration, healthcare, social, foreign policy, and science issues

nothing to add.

87%
Ron Paul
on economic, domestic policy, immigration, healthcare, and social issues

i think he's got his head in the right place, just not all that practical.  but i get it, he's more making a point than a serious run at getting those policies in.

76%
Gary Johnson
on economic, domestic policy, and healthcare issues

.... who?

53%
Barack Obama
on foreign policy issues

the one topic tells the story more than the percentage.  i don't give a **** about foreign policy as long as we aren't inviting attack.

93% Republican
64% Libertarian
24% Democratic
10% Green

I'm betting the 10% Green bit is based solely on global warming, which is the one serious flaw i see with this.  I agree with libertarians on basic principle of don't let the government **** with everything, but in reality they are goddamn wackjobs.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Nuke on August 25, 2012, 01:47:43 am
79% gary johnson
79% ron paul
76% mitt romney

73% republican
67% green
66% democratic
65% libertarian

dont know why i scored high on green, maybe is mistake. im always the **** climate change, we can hust heat the world with nukes, and nuke the whales too. im also surprised libertarian scored lowest, i always was kind of an anarchist. canidates dont supprise me. these are more or less the canidates i was looking at, with the exception of gary johnson, who ive never heard of before.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on August 25, 2012, 02:36:54 am
It always feels weird when I take these quizzes: (http://www.isidewith.com/results/61686245)
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By candidate:
85% Jill Stein - on social, domestic policy, science, economic, environmental, and healthcare issues
85% Barack Obama - on social, science, economic, environmental, and healthcare issues
79% Gary Johnson - on foreign policy, domestic policy, social, environmental, and immigration issues
60% Rocky Anderson - on social, environmental, and healthcare issues
54% Ron Paul - on foreign policy and domestic policy issues
18% Mitt Romney - no major issues
13% Virgil Goode - no major issues
55% American Voters
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By party:
89% Democratic
80% Green
39% Libertarian
7% Republican
Who the heck is Jill Stein? I've never heard of her before :P.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: watsisname on August 25, 2012, 04:25:49 am
I really wish there was an "I don't know" or "I don't have an opinion on the matter" response.  But apparently I'm 84% aligned with Jill Stein.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: z64555 on August 25, 2012, 06:36:19 am
I really wish there was an "I don't know" or "I don't have an opinion on the matter" response.  But apparently I'm 84% aligned with Jill Stein.

There was an "Add your response" and a "Least probable of giving a damn." :P
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Aardwolf on August 25, 2012, 02:08:38 pm
http://www.isidewith.com/results/62289717

Jill Stein 91%
Rocky Anderson 68%
Gary Johnson & Barack Obama 67%
Ron Paul 55%
Mitt Romney 4%

Green: 89%
Democratic: 88%
Libertarian: 41%
Republican: 0%



+1 for wanting an "I have no opinion about this" option.



Edit: and I notice, when looking at what I agree/disagree with Jill Stein about, that some of the things where she said "Yes" and I chose a more specific variation on "Yes" counted as disagreement... but not consistently.


It looks like many of you guys were able to just copy-paste something, where are you copying from? Mine's got a bunch of images and crap in the way.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: jr2 on August 25, 2012, 02:44:10 pm
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Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: sigtau on August 25, 2012, 03:12:50 pm
I side with Barack Obama on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Candidates you side with...
83% Barack Obama on social, environmental, economic, foreign policy, and immigration issues
81% Jill Stein on environmental, domestic policy, foreign policy, and social issues
76% Gary Johnson on domestic policy, foreign policy, and immigration issues
65% Rocky Anderson on social, environmental, and foreign policy issues
65% Ron Paul on domestic policy, immigration, and foreign policy issues
52% Virgil Goode on domestic policy, foreign policy, and immigration issues
37% Mitt Romney on immigration issues
61% South Carolina Voters on domestic policy, environmental, social, foreign policy, immigration, and science issues.
66% American Voters on domestic policy, environmental, social, foreign policy, healthcare, immigration, and science issues.

Who you side with by party...
87% Democratic
76% Green
64% Libertarian
31% Republican

Not surprised in the least bit, except for the Romney part.
Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: IronBeer on August 25, 2012, 07:04:40 pm
For what it's worth:
http://www.isidewith.com/results/62661673

Candidates you side with...
77%
Mitt Romney
on economic, foreign policy, healthcare, science, and social issues
75%
Gary Johnson
on science, immigration, healthcare, and social issues
66%
Ron Paul
on foreign policy and healthcare issues
61%
Jill Stein
no major issues
57%
Barack Obama
on immigration issues
27%
Virgil Goode
on healthcare and social issues
23%
Rocky Anderson
no major issues
55%
Texas Voters
on domestic policy, foreign policy, immigration, environmental, and social issues.
54%
American Voters
on domestic policy, foreign policy, immigration, environmental, and social issues.
Who you side with by party...
63%
Republican
62%
Democratic
54%
Libertarian
24%
Green

Title: Re: US Presidential Election Quiz
Post by: Dilmah G on August 25, 2012, 11:26:10 pm
I really wish there was an "I don't know" or "I don't have an opinion on the matter" response.  But apparently I'm 84% aligned with Jill Stein.
You can actually leave questions or even entire sections blank and the quiz will still do its thing. I left immigration and a few other questions alone because I just don't know the cultural dynamic/enough about it.