January 26, 2004

President Match

AOL has this "toy" called President Match where you answer questions as to your own political leanings and it calculates the presidential candidate closest to your positions. For me the results were a bit of a surprise. Here's how it ranked the 8 possible candidates (only from the two major parties as others are excluded), along with the percentage (in brackets) as how close their position is to mine:

1 - Kucinich (100%!!!) 2 - Sharpton (91%) 3 - Kerry (85%) 4 - Dean (79%) 5 - Clark (77%) 6 - Edwards (74%) 7 - Lieberman (64%) and finally 8 - Bush (1%!!!)

The first two did not surprise me, Kerry coming right after was a bolt from the blue, Dean probably lost a bunch of compatibility points with me on gun control issues, Lieberman was understandably lowest amongst Democrats and finally "W" came in with matching only 1% of my opinions, which is actually lower than I had expected. I'd bet for myself and most other folks, the number is higher than 1% for opinions in common with Hitler or Khomeini even, so being that far low was astounding.

Try for yourself and see where you'd fit in, but remember, this is only a "toy" and its accuracy is questionable at best.

Posted by Pedram at January 26, 2004 11:23 PM
Comments

What surprised me was that although Bush came in last for me, it had a 9% rating... I must have done something wrong to receive anything more than 1% agreement with that bastard.

Posted by: Nima at January 27, 2004 07:21 AM

I got the exact same rankings as you, although with slightly different percentages on all of them (except for Kucinich, for which I also got 100%). Like Nima, I was also disappointed with what I got for Bush (4%), but I suppose it makes sense.

Posted by: N at January 27, 2004 05:00 PM

I was surprised that Sharpton came in so high on my list at 98%! Who knew?! Admittedly I hadn't been paying much attention to him as I haven't been impressed with his "ambulance chaser" tactics on race issues in New York in the past. But I'm going to look into his campaign message a bit more.

Posted by: Kristen at January 27, 2004 09:51 PM

When you compare Kerry and Kucinich on the given issues the boys are not too far apart, but aren't they just saying that stuff to get in the house??

Posted by: Ali at January 28, 2004 10:02 PM