The Quad Cities’s WQAD hosts a quiz designed to help voters “find out which [presidential] candidates are most aligned with your views and opinions.” (Thanks, Karen.)
Pros: Answers are weighted by importance of the issue to the quiz-taker. One can also skip questions altogether.
Cons: It’s a multiple-choice quiz in which you can only pick one answer from the incomplete list of options. For instance, “What is your position on immigration in the United States?” lacks this option: ” I favor beatings penalties for employers who hire illegal workers for obscenely low wages and then lobby against illegal immigration, also believe we should provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already here and favor a guest worker program.”
Chris Dodd is my man. Who knew? I sure didn’t, but I’m not one to select my candidate from an online quiz.
Edit: A sad observation I make from local, state and federal politics today is the sheer yawns and apathy all of the candidates generate. The majority of the New Orleans population thinks most of the City Council At Large candidates are jokes, much of Louisiana almost fell asleep during the last gubernatorial debate and inspiration doesn’t come to mind and heart on pondering the presidential hopefuls. Once one of these boring people is elected, we then get activated into finding the next candidate who will replace him or her. The next boring cycle ensues, and it is our people and economies who suffer from this increasingly perfunctory exercise. Is there something we can do to ensure candidates and, more importantly, a process worth supporting?
Well it isn’t Kucinich, but since I don’t really care for any of them I’m going to have a tough time with my vote.
Isn’t that the truth?
I’m a Dodder too.
The quiz pegged me Kucinich. I’m not surprised. I have sent him money, but I haven’t formally endorsed, nor do I plan to.
I’m closest to Kuchinich, too, and that’s no surprise.
The real surprise is that so many Democratic candidates apparently still support the death penalty: Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden, and Richardson. That’s shameful.
Maitri, we’re apparently going to have the hollow robot, who spews out figures and panders to the basest among us as our next governor, and it ain’t gonna be pretty. If we could get unbored, it would probably be good, but the candidates don’t give us much to work with.
As someone who considers herself liberal and abhors the death penalty, I find that surprising, too. Welcome to Centrist Hell.
If we could get unbored, it would probably be good, but the candidates don’t give us much to work with.
The bad candidates make us bored, so that’s why I asked if the candidacy process should be more rigorous and one that citizens can be involved in. The nice thing about democracy is that anyone (with the funds) can run, but there has to be more front-end citizen involvement in the process.
I’m most in tune with Mike Gravel. Interesting…