I will be honest. I've always been on the outside looking in when it comes to politics and the election. I took this quiz: https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz And it is really eye opening. Looks like I would support Tulsi Gabbard. Did some research and I really like her. If you are in the same boat as me, I highly recommend taking this quiz to really educate yourself.
I answered about 75% of the questions on offer and got the following results: Parties 87% Green 85% Socialist 84% Peace and Freedom 78% Democratic 70% Libertarian 36% Constitution 27% Republican Candidates 87% Julian Castro 86% Beto O’Rourke 86% Tulsi Gabbard 85% Bernie Sanders 85% Elizabeth Warren 85% Kirsten Gillibrand 85% Andrew Yang 83% Kamala Harris 81% Pete Buttigieg 81% Cory Booker 79% Marianne Williamson 78% Gary Johnson 75% Amy Klobuchar 71% John Delaney 62% Joe Biden 40% John Kasich 39% Donald Trump A few takeaways: - There's an obvious cluster at the top 7-8 candidates. I would draw my hard line of support at Booker. He's a turd. Surprised to see him and Pete B tied. - It's amazing to me that I have more in common with Gary Johnson than 3 fairly well known Democrats (I personally think this says more about centrist Democrats and than it does me)
I don't trust these type of website services that try to summary your stances based on some limited set of questions.
Youre overstating the "limited". Theres over 100 questions to answer that took me and my fiance three hours to answer all of them.
I should expanded on what I stated. It's not just the questions (and they are limited IMO), but it's how they interpret the data. I'm not totally clear how they interpret the data, but I have my guess based on what I have seen. As an ex for myself, I took the test and it's Tulsi Gabbard. Nope. That's not my choice at all at this point. Some example of their characterization of candidates: Biden - Gov experience, electability, big gov, environmentalism, keynesian, ... Trump - Patriotism, confidence, toughness, protectionism, nationalism, antropocentrism... Gabbard - Diplomacy, health, foreign policy exp, democracy, environmentalism, secular ... It's not clear how they get these characterizations. They do list the political rating (1-5 star) for each candidates that is based on "voters" data. If voter data is people answering their questions and that's how they determine their summary, it's pretty self-reinforcing. eg. Voters - I think Trump has great busn experience. You - I want someone with great busn experience. Summary: Trump. But does Trump really have great busn experience? The interpretation is based on answers from the polls taker themselves. Doesn't this lead to a "mainstream" or popular view of the candidate and thus skew your summary toward that way? BTW, they make money by - selling the massive data set they obtain through these questions - allow you to create your own custom poll, start an ad campaign, and boost email subscripers
If you click any candidate, under each question that the candidate has "answered" there is a button for references.
off and on I came back again and answered more questions, based on all the questions this is what came up for me: Parties 74% Libertarian 64% Republican 50% Constitution 48% Democratic 46% Green 44% Peace and Freedom 42% Socialist 42% Women’s Equality Candidates 74% Gary Johnson 71% John Delaney 66% Donald Trump 63% Andrew Yang 61% Amy Klobuchar 58% Cory Booker 57% John Kasich 55% Joe Biden 54% Kirsten Gillibrand 52% Tulsi Gabbard 52% Beto O’Rourke 51% Marianne Williamson 50% Pete Buttigieg 49% Julian Castro 46% Kamala Harris 45% Bernie Sanders 45% Elizabeth Warren I suppose that's about right. This quiz strikes me as somewhat more nuanced than ones that have been posted here in the past; on the other hand, there are still too many questions posed as binary, either-or options where subtlety, context, and contingency gets thrown out the window. I also think the poll shows more about the leftward drift of the Democratic party over time then it does about fixed ideology.
90% John Delaney (who?) 81% John Kasich 77% Andrew Yang 72% Donald Trump 67% Tulsi Gabbard 83% Republican 72% Constitutionalist 63% Peace and Freedom 62% Democrat 59% Libertarian
There's literally people in this thread who are getting Trump as their top 5. I'm not even a Trump hater. You're reaching, bro.
I agree with you on this one. My candidate list was almost exactly the opposite of how I would have voted. Tulsi was dead last and Andrew Yang was first, followed by Corey Booker. I would vote Tulsi above anyone and Andrew Yang would be at the bottom of the barrel, almost as low as Corey Booker.
Maybe you aren’t that big of a trump supporter as you think? I got trump as my 1st choice.... by answering the exact opposite of my stance.
so I haven't paid much attention to Andrew Yang, and for two of us so far Yang scores right in the same vicinity next to Trump. why is that?
