Match-o-matic
 

ABC has a quiz to help you find the candidate whose opinions match yours.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Match...age?id=5542139

Cheers! Good fun.
If anything I was surprised to find I had three McCain answers!

Shocking to read both the candidates are against gay marriage. Still, that's what happens when you have candidates with closed minds because of their religion I suppose.

Well that made my decision much easier.

Gee, I had ALL McCain except one on immigration. Does this make me a bad person?

Uh, yeah.



(I keeeed, I keeeeeed!)

7-6 McCain

8 McCain, 5 Obama.
I aligned with Obama on immigration, and split between the two on the economy and Iraq. McCain took health care and "hot topics" except for "Command in Chief" question at the end.

9-4
Obama

7-6 McCain.

However many of those McCain quotes are contrary to opinions of Sarah Palin and the people who put her on the ticket. George Jr also said he was a compassionate conservative. We failed to look that the political agenda and people he also was representing.

The McCain that was hated by most of the Republican party was a more palatable choice and more representative of those ABC News quotes.

cute toy, but no basis for picking a candidate. voting by soundbite ... you get what you pay for. No thinks, no thanks

9-4 Obama but I hate each a little more now.

11 - 2 Obama But I agree that picking a candidate by sound bite is not really an optimal method.

What else have they given us to go by, but sound bites.

One of mine was McCain, the rest Obama. And that's cause actually I agreed with neither on the immigration one. McCain wants them to leave or follow a path to legal status...but, is that a choice they're offered or is it a choice made for them? Obama says it is wrong to deport all those people...but then he suggests punitive fines and forcing them to the back of the queue for legal status, thereby rendering them economically vulnerable for much longer...

In the end, I eeny meeny miny moed McCain's quote.

5 points for dar512.

ditto

8-5 McCain, but I still don't like him. I wish there was a candidate that didn't want to fuck up health care and did want to send the illegal immigrants to Dana's house...

One has demonstrated who his people are by picking a VP that does not know what the Bush doctrine was AND then justifies Pearl Harboring of any sovereign nation only because we might feel threatened.

George Sr had to make those same concessions to get elected – to empower the extremists of his party to gain their support. Do we really need those same people justifying a unilateral attack on Iran only because we ‘feel’ Iran might be a threat? Sarah Palin gave us everything to see beyond the sound bytes. She represents the devil that McCain had to make a deal with.

9-4 McCain. No real surprise there.

Where have you looked?

Obama

McCain

These source documents. As close to the candidate's minds as we can get at this point. There's more to it than just their rhetoric, of course. I depend on fact checking sources as well. And I find second hand subjective analyses helpful, even necessary on most topics, since I'm not an expert in every field that interests or affects me. For those I turn to various news services in radio and print and television and on the intarwebz, too many and varied to list. Perhaps this is as good a first step as any.

Keep reading, keep listening, keep talking.

10 Obama, 3 McCain.

I will protect you, lookout, when the revolution comes.

Don't worry about me dear, you go on ahead. Somehow my childhood carried on through the Carter administration and I even did ok in the military during the Clinton years. I'll be ok. Besides if things get too bad I can just go to Mexico, right?

Where your soccer skills will lead to a fulfilling career!

Jinx, honey, if you're sending shedloads of Mexicans, can you make sure they're armed with tacos please?:P

Unlike Bush, who might have gotten you killed. :eyebrow:

Obama 10-3

I actually agreed with McCain's statement about the Supreme Court. I think he's lying considering his implied promise to appoint judges who will overturn Roe v Wade, but I agree with his statement.

Oh sure, but at least we knew he'd send in support. Clinton? Somalia? Blue Helmet duty? Don't fire even if the fuckers are throwing flaming bottles of kerosene at you? No thanks.

a) according to dontvote.org I'm not allowed to vote with my 78% score
b) 10/3 O'bama
c) There isn't a candidate who can make me happy anyway. The three McCain agree answers were the ones I felt more strongly about anyway.
d) I would vote for another J Edgar Hoover if his agenda were campaign and government reform, rather than cross dressing.

3 - 10 McCain. It is still unlikely that I will vote for him.

Yeah,

I always look at these sort of pickers as not giving us the whole story. They only tell you where the candidate stands on issues, not whether they have the leadership to actually try to accomplish things, which items will on the agenda and which simply will never be, what they are actually able to do from the office, whether they are unflappable under pressure, whether they can convince the people of what to do, etc. etc. I think a gut-level feeling about the people is a better predictor than random policy statements they've made.

Similarly the quiz show failure of Ms. Palin. Of course she's underqualified. But does it even make a decent predictor of what sort of President she'd be if in office? Truman never went to college at all, ran a men's clothing store into the ground in three years as preparation for his station as Senator, which would lead to the VP selection after sessions of booze and poker played out of his office. He'd surely fail the quiz show format; and at the time they thought he was lousy as Pres; but history turned that around and now he's seen as one of the better ones.

We weren't encouraged to think well of Truman in the 80s, when I was studying World Powers in the 20th Century. In fact we used to call him Truman the Bastard, as a nod to William the Conqueror who was known as William the Bastard (due to a slight embarrassment as to what side of the sheets he was born on).

This was of course because he was president when the atomic bombs were dropped, effectively started the Cold War and involved the US in Korea. We saw him as pretty bloodthirsty.

However teens don't necessarily have a firm grasp on "evil that good may come of it" and I'd be willing to readdress my original opinions of him.

Nah, your teenage gut was right. Truman was in over his head and circumstances got the best of him. America is still paying the bill.

8-McCain / 5- Obama

Nonsense, Harry did as well as anyone could have done, with the situation dropped in his lap, except he probably should have bombed the UN.;)
It was Ike that alienated Islam, which we're paying the bill for.

Dontvote.org is interesting, but I don't think I'll take their advice because:

A: Identifying individuals by faces assumes that you are getting your news from TV or that articles contain pictures. One can know a lot about current events without ever seeing a picture of Pelosi.

B: Identifying the faces of actors should have no whatsoever on voting, except that anyone who identified Martin Sheen as POTUS should automatically be referred to Wolf and her Whitecoats.

C: The idiots who created that site judged me on knowing about celebrities and misspelled Angelina Jolie's name.

And I'm sure that he was aware of current events even before going into office simply by reading some newspapers.

Since Palin has read 'all of them', she's going to be awesome.;)

Well done you! Even with my acknowledged terrible face recognition (I thought Val Kilmer was Brad Pitt through an entire film) I still didn't click that this was primarily a recognition game. I believe I am far more clued up on international politics than this gave me credit for - and in fact I almost always matched the names to the titles correctly, but no points if you got the face wrong in the first place!

And if there is a tie?

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...rpc=22&sp=true

Thunderdome!:apistola::sniper: