http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html I was pretty surprised by which candidate matched my priorities...
Well it picked who I thought it would, Edwards, but I don't understand how it works. Some of the people on the list I haven't even heard of... like they are there but I think they have already dropped out of the race.
It's an interesting way to distill some of the important issues of the current day. I notice there are some pretty big omissions - the prescription drug benefit, ethanol, federalism, the newly-mandated mileage requirements, and the most important of all, the appointment of judges. So, it's a decent and minimal thumbnail, but by no means complete. It was, however, mostly in line with my expectations for the results. It's just too bad Hunter is not getting more run, he may be the best man out there. I don't really want a Massachusetts guy as Prez, so it looks like it going to have to be Thompson, which is ok, I have always liked the guy. Unlike almost every politician in the past, Thompson has a long and consistent record - he is who he says he is, and is not one of these guys whose policies change with every new poll. coughclintoncough It is also interesting to see how far down at the bottom the likely lib candidates are, in Obama and clinton. All this really means is that once the nominees are in place, the debates are going to be nicely polarizing. I don't think the dems are going to be able to try to hide who they are this time, like Gore did in 2000, so by the time November finally rolls around, there should be very few 'undecideds' left.
That was hard, but not the game itself so much as everytime I press down arrow and up arrow, it scrolls the page up and down. Usually on these games you click the window you are playing in and that doesn't happen. Space bar is murder too because it skips the page down to the bottom.
I was given former Tennessee Gov. Fred Thompson. Middle of the pack- Mitt Romney. Bottom of the barrel- Tom Tancredo. (Who?) Weird. I was trying to brainwash myself into going Dem. this time. I guess I've not seen enough debate's as of yet.
Nice find. I like the idea of taking away faces, names and political affiliations from the major issues. No surprise for me though. I got Romney and that's who i've planned on voting for all along.
