Nicholas ([info]nhw) wrote,
@ 2008-01-06 12:01:00
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Presidential meme
84% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% Chris Dodd
78% Barack Obama
77% Joe Biden
74% John Edwards
73% Hillary Clinton
73% Bill Richardson
39% Rudy Giuliani
35% John McCain
32% Ron Paul
25% Mike Huckabee
25% Mitt Romney
15% Fred Thompson
14% Tom Tancredo

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Not a huge surprise; though I'm actually furthest from Kucinich on his foreign policy positions, where he is (as far as I can tell) pretty isolationist.

Myself, I've been very much influenced by the Washington Post piece in October about who is advising the front-runners on foreign policy. Clinton and McCain have easily the most heavyweight lists of experts, but Obama's list includes my former colleague Rob Malley and several others with whom I feel instinctively in sympathy - Samantha Power, Dick Clarke, Ivo Daalder. (The Edwards team seems surprisingly mil rather than pol in balance; perhaps they have been updated since?) It is of course wrong to assume that because X is advised by Y that X will share Y's views; but if Y is someone whose judgement I respect, and has chosen to support X, that counts for something too.


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[info]parrot_knight
2008-01-06 11:23 am UTC (link)
I've done the meme but can't claim to be as well-informed as you, and of course I want to heavily qualify too many of the position points. Context is often everything. The link to the Washington Post piece was appreciated - interesting to see Nile Gardner on Giuliani's team, as he was an admin assistant for a while where I used to work...

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[info]purplecthulhu
2008-01-06 11:32 am UTC (link)
I would appear to be a lefty. How surprising.

94% Dennis Kucinich
92% Mike Gravel
80% John Edwards
79% Joe Biden
78% Chris Dodd
76% Barack Obama
71% Hillary Clinton
67% Bill Richardson
31% Rudy Giuliani
27% Ron Paul
22% John McCain
16% Mitt Romney
15% Mike Huckabee
12% Tom Tancredo
7% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

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[info]matgb
2008-01-06 11:54 am UTC (link)
That's weird. I normally score very high Kucinich, Gravel next then the rest nearer to "meh". This one gives me:
82% Barack Obama
81% Mike Gravel
81% Dennis Kucinich
81% Chris Dodd
77% John Edwards
77% Hillary Clinton
77% Bill Richardson
76% Joe Biden
40% Rudy Giuliani
37% John McCain
31% Ron Paul
28% Mike Huckabee
27% Mitt Romney
21% Tom Tancredo
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I suspect because the policy choices are different and there are less of them. Plus some of them didn't give an answer I liked at all. Still, I'd be happy Obama/Edwards, even happier with Obama/Kucinich. We'll see I guess.

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[info]miss_s_b
2008-01-06 11:01 pm UTC (link)
* is utterly shocked that you're a leftie *

(me too ;))

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There seems to be no place for centrism in America.
[info]miteque
2008-01-06 11:58 am UTC (link)
65% Hillary Clinton
62% John Edwards
61% Barack Obama
60% Bill Richardson
58% Mitt Romney
58% Tom Tancredo
57% Chris Dodd
55% Mike Huckabee
53% Joe Biden
53% John McCain
53% Rudy Giuliani
52% Fred Thompson
46% Mike Gravel
37% Dennis Kucinich
31% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

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Re: There seems to be no place for centrism in America.
[info]blue_condition
2008-01-06 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Interesting, you're the only person I've seen who has candidates 'mixed' - everyone else I've seen who's responded to this has a pile of Democrats on top and a pile of Republicans down below (even me - and I'm fairly Right-wing on things like free markets and the death penalty).

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[info]redfiona99
2008-01-06 01:31 pm UTC (link)
90% Mike Gravel
90% Dennis Kucinich
83% John Edwards
80% Barack Obama
79% Chris Dodd
77% Joe Biden
76% Hillary Clinton
69% Bill Richardson
37% Rudy Giuliani
27% John McCain
24% Ron Paul
21% Tom Tancredo
20% Mitt Romney
20% Mike Huckabee
11% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Actually have never heard of Gravel before but I definitely like him, again just judging from his website.

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[info]nhw
2008-01-06 03:53 pm UTC (link)
Actually have never heard of Gravel before but I definitely like him, again just judging from his website.

He's 77!

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[info]redfiona99
2008-01-06 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm with Ming, this ageism in politics is ridiculous.

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[info]pnh
2008-01-06 02:15 pm UTC (link)
See my comment to Charlie Stross about this idiotic quiz. Given that, in fact, Giuliani's foreign-policy team consists of the people who couldn't get jobs with Dick Cheney because they're excessively crazy warmongers, I doubt very much that you actually prefer Giuliani out of all the Republicans.

Like you, I'm pretty impressed by Obama's foreign-policy outfit. They are of course comfortably inside the bipartisan consensus view in which, basically, the United States feels free to invade and rule anyone for any reason, but within that limitation, these are the genuinely decent ones. In an imperfect world, that sort of thing counts for a lot.

I didn't start out supporting Obama, but if (as is beginning to seem likely) we actually have a wave of Obamamania that takes the guy to the White House, I'll regard it as a good year.

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