FYI I just did a quick count through the thread and here are the numbers through SunsRocketsFan's post: Leading Political Party - # - % of respondents Democrat 14 - 31% Green 13 - 29% Libertarian 13 - 29% Republican 5 - 11% No wonder the Republicans get gang-banged on here so much. I think the results, although this is by no means a useful sample, do align with the personality of the D&D.
I wonder if that's why so many of us ended up as Libertarians or Greens? I have a feeling the quiz is set to award yes/no to Republican/Democrat.
Probably Romney. I hate that we effectively have a two party system, most elections end up choosing the lesser of two evils. Also a lot of towing the party line in matters instead of doing what you believe to be right. I usually end up voting republican because i find the government has substantially more impact on economic issues, where i'm definitely republican. Social issues are usually more based on society than who's in office, but i do hate the Republicans bible toting fear mongering ways. I actually voted for Obama in 08 hoping he would govern more towards the center instead of his often times socialist financial views.
I peeked at an ignore list poster. I almost never do. I'm glad I did though so I could speak truth to weak sauce: Your being called a racist has nothing to do with Barack Obama (though you are often blatantly racist in your puns, etc about him) so calm down. You are only called a racist because you are one. It's marginally acceptable to be a racist in America but you need to learn to love yourself first, texxx. And the first step to loving yourself is being honest with yourself. I know you can do it. I'm rooting for you. (I'm not rooting for your racism or bigotry against LGBT - just rooting for you coming to terms with it.)
I was curious about this in how they scored the tests. Was this the Mitt Romney that was governor of MA? Was this the Mitt Romney that ran in the 2008 election? Was this the Mitt Romney that ran in the 2012 primaries? Or was this the Etch-A-Sketch Mitt Romney that is running now? Because Romney doesn't really have two positions on every issue, often the polar opposites of each other; he often has as many as four. And he changes them up on an almost daily basis. How are they determining one agrees with Romney when he so rarely agrees wtih himself?
Strange to me that Stewart Alexander (of whom I'd never heard) is running as a Socialist and yet not a single result pic includes a percentage for ID'ing with Socialist Party. If mine had been properly weighted according to my votes it would have gone Dem/Green tie; Socialist; Libertarian; Republican. But, while they included the party's candidate, Socialist was eliminated from every single party breakdown. Bizarre. And I'm not ashamed of being called a Socialist at all. I'm for Medicare, I'm for Medicaid, I'm for non-profit, single-payer health care (like they have in basically every civilized country but ours), in other words I'm for Medicare for all. So many of the programs that Americans overwhelmingly support are absolutely socialist in nature. It is only the word they don't like. So we wind up with dumbass Tea Party signs like: Get your Socialist hands off my Medicare. (Not to imply that any Tea Party sign or anybody that subscribes in any way to the Tea Party isn't a dumbass, because it's not just the sign; it's everything about them. Hi, thumbs!)
And, just to clarify, when they say one ID's as a Republican, they mean like Gingrich/Santorum/Romney (primary only, pre-Etch-A-Sketch) or that amazing nutbag Eric Cantor, right? They mean like, "We like the failed policies that created the problem in the first place and prefer going back to them and failing harder because Obama wasn't able to turn around our own errors in one term, we think our presidential candidates have personal conversations with the Almighty, we're against health care for our non-rich or unemployed or underemployed citizens and for our citizens with pre-existing conditions, we don't believe in science, we're against abortions AND condoms, we're against running up the debt and deficit but we love off-the-books wars and bombings and guns and all killing except for the unborn, we think the top 1% should be way richer and the bottom 99% should fend for themselves, and we hate gays." Right? I mean they don't mean "RINO's" like Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, Dwight Eisenhower, George Bush 1 or even 2, right? And they don't mean liberal Democrats like Abe Lincoln, right? They just mean lean dumb and crazy. Right?
BTW why is: "Do you believe in the evolution theory" a question about your political preference. Wether you believe in a god, or which god doesn't matter for who's political views you support.
The left is more secular than the right. Case in point the right is pro-life and the left is pro-choice. Case in point the right is anti-gay marriage and the left is pro-gay marriage. Case in point the right is pro-creation and the left is pro-evolution. And to add to that the right considers evolution a "theory" and creationism to be an equivalent "theory" or even so far as a truth. All religiously motivated by the right. Not to say that there aren't religious people in the left as well... but its more likely that those people would remain independents or members of a different party as the party line for the left is heavily slanted towards secularism while the right is heavily slanted towards uniting a "Christian Nation".
