Quick online test. Who SHOULD you support for president?

The test is a "Find Your Candidate" test from VAJoe.com. I have no idea who VA Joe is. But it's the quickest test I've seen like this.

I gotta say, I'm not pleased with my top choice--if only because I've spent a good deal of time on DU disparaging the man. But... gulp... here it is:

86% . . . grrrrr . . Please stop laughing at me.

I'm quite pleased with my next three choices, according to the test anyway.

- 79.25% - 77.36% - 73.58%


Now maybe you're axing, "So, Bucky. Don't you think it's time to give crazy Grampaw a second look?"
To which I would reply, "Someone agreeing with me 86% of the time is NOT proof they're not crazy."

And then I would toss a rock into a pond and stare deeply into your soul.

Kucinich second

cough hillary third

Thanks for making me feel better.

If you look at the right on the results page, 26.20% of respondents end up with Gravel as their top choice. 17.86% for Kucinich. You can fix these kind of polls to say whatever you want. When they don't make their methodology public, it's a sign that it's worthless.

I would pray for Dennis's health hourly.

his platform is liberal and that is the criteria they are using. My stats were close to yours. Same order, different percentages.

94%!!! No surprises here!

gravel at 95
Kucinich at 90
Obama and Biden at 85

Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D)

92.50% match


Wow.

TC

Oh wait, that's just your sigfile.

Pretty extraordinary, I think!

TC

not surprised :shrug:

other candidates:
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 82.00%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 71.00%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 70.00%

2. Clinton 69%

3. Biden 65%

4. Dodd 65%

That was fun.

a few are in the wrong order, but thats due to no tax plan or corporate-ties questions...

Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) 89.66% match

Your Other Top Matches
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 82.76%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 76.72%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 75.86%

Middle of the Pack
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 72.41%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 72.41%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 67.24%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 63.79%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 46.55%
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) - 31.03%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 24.14%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 20.69%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 17.24%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 12.93%

Bottom of the Barrel
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 12.07%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 10.34%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 6.90%
Former Tennessee Senator Thompson (R) - 3.45%

but he is always my first and my first choice, Kucinich. 91.30%

The next candidates puzzle me. Clinton and Gravel are the same, 69.57%. How is that possible? Grampa is cool but not one I am interested in voting for and Clinton? Not in this lifetime. Biden is next at 65.22%. Yuk.

Just as I thought, one choice for me.

Choice - Dennis Kucinich 93.55%. I knew I liked this guy. Well the bottom of the pack were the 2 guys I will not want to see as president Tom Tancredo - 6.45% & Mitt Romney 12.90%. This quiz works great.

I didn't even need to take the test. But I did.

There is nothing crazy about Gravel. And the "experience" criticism doesn't work. He's an important man. He is "crazy" in the context of a substance abusing nation. We squint into the bright lights of reality.

I know how I'm voting. And it's fairly close to the list we see here.

at 90% match

Gravel and Edwards were both next at 73.05. Paul's in the middle of the pack. Mitt was dead last with 2.63.

:woohoo:

BTW: Kucinich leads as the composite candidate.

Go Dennis!
http://dennis4president.com
Choose Peace!

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D)
83.64% match

Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) - 81.82%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 67.27%

Gravel showing up in first place.

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D)
95.65% match

Your Other Top Matches

You will want to keep close attention to these candidates thru election day.
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Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) - 91.30%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 82.61%
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 78.26%
Middle of the Pack:

If your top choices aren't in the running, keep an eye on these candidates in 2008.

Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 73.91%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 73.91%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 69.57%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 69.57%
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) - 60.87%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 52.17%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 43.48%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 43.48%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 39.13%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 21.74%

Bottom of the Barrel:

You won't be getting on the campaign trail with these candidates anytime soon.

Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 21.74%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 17.39%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 17.39%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 13.04%

Are you keeping an eye on Sam Brownback? Someone should, you know.

I can't imagine how he even got into my selection to start with. x(

Edwards 78%
Clinton 70%
Obama 57%

Least

Tancredo 3%
Romney 2.7%
Huckabee 1.2%

edited to add: once I went back and rated the importance of each issue (DOH! :silly: ) I came up with Kucinich. Very good outcome.

Gravel second. Oddly enough, I matched Obama and Clinton next in the order (60% or so). I really don't like either of them.

Too bad he's certifiable.

Kucinich 89.66%
Edwards 79.31%

That's a pretty simplistic test...though interesting.

from the truth- except for Gravel.

I got the following:

Dennis Kucinich (D) 79.17% match
Barack Obama (D) - 70.83%
John Edwards (D) - 68.06%
Hillary Clinton (D) - 65.28%

I like him. The man makes sense to me, although Kucinich is my first choice outside of the "test"

You have no choice. He is gazing into your eyes... gazing... you must vote for Gravel... you must vote for Gravel...

:D Gravel reminds me of Huey Long and a little LBJ. Kucinich reminds me of the Jesus I was taught to admire and as a child. It's been a long time since then..don't think about people being Jesuses anymore, but Kucinich reminds me of the shepherd. And I can't say I'm a christian, but I was raised to admire this shepherd and I'll never get it out of my system.

Top-ranked candidates overall at the time of my poll submission...
(and honestly I haven't paid attention to Gravel before.)

# Gravel - 26.15%
# Kucinich - 17.86% << almost 6x more likely to match your stand on issues than Clinton.
# Romney - 7.08%
# Tommy Thompson - 6.87%
# Giuliani - 5.87%
# Biden - 4.53%
# Paul - 3.82%
# Obama - 3.75%
# Cox - 3.67%
# Hunter - 3.56%
# Tancredo - 3.11%
# Clinton - 3.05%
# Fred Thompson - 2.61%
# Dodd - 2.17%
# Richardson - 1.65%
# Huckabee - 1.53%
# Brownback - 1.24%
# Edwards - 0.90%
# Mccain - 0.58%

Obama, Edwards, Gravel - 82%

91.89% match ---> Kucinich

Interesting.

Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D)
85.29% match


Your Other Top Matches
You will want to keep close attention to these candidates thru election day.
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 82.35%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 76.47%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 76.47%


Middle of the Pack:
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 73.53%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 73.53%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 70.59%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 64.71%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 41.18%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 29.41%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 29.41%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 26.47%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 26.47%
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) - 23.53%

Bottom of the Barrel:
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 17.65%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 11.76%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 11.76%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 11.76%


I still want Clark and/or Gore. A guy can dream, can't he?

and Dennis 90.91. These are my two favorites and how I will vote.

I've liked him in the debates, and I don't think that he's crazy. He's angry and refuses to spew pablum.

Same four guys next in a slightly different order.

Apparently, I should have liked Tommy Thompson, too. Horrors!

I'm surprised that Gravel and Clinton ranked higher than Edwards.

And then I'm not either. There are many issues that aren't included in this questionaire that really measure how "corporate" the candidate is and how much we want someone who isn't corporate, that I think would rank someone like Edwards higher in our ratings. Here is a list of many that I think were noticeably missing:

1) Public campaign financing..
2) Raising taxes on the wealthy.
3) Reversing the earlier tax cuts.
4) Stopping outsourcing of jobs overseas.
5) Stop "insourcing" of jobs like H-1B Visa and guest worker programs ("citizen path for illegals" doesn't cover this!)
6) Break up the mass media monopoly consolidation.
7) Shut down privatized "mercenary" military forces.
8) Get rid of "corporate personhood" and other corresponding "corporate rights" like "free speech", etc.
9) Election integrity reform (get RID of voting machines!).
10) Increased efforts of halting nuclear proliferation (both for power and weapons).
11) Increase our efforts to help incent efforts to reduce population growth and at the same time halt the spread of AIDS. STOP our restrictions of distribution of condoms and family planning efforts.
12) Stop subsidizing churches through "faith based" intiatives, etc.
13) Support for increased rights of forming labor unions.

Obama, Biden.

My top four, according to this test are:

Kucinich: 89.04%
Hillary: 75.34%
Edwards: 72.6%
Gravel: 71.92%

That is why you get folks like Hillary Clinton kept near the top. We didn't really have a full "gamut" of questions that separated the corporatists from those that aren't.

Which explains why I continue to be steadfastly uncommitted.

1) Biden - 68.97% (I'd be happy to support him)
2) Edwards - 68.97% (my top choice for the nomination)
3) Clinton - 62.07%
4) Dodd - 62.07%
5) Richardson - 62.07%
6) Kucinich - 58.62%
7) Obama - 58.62% (surprised he's this low on my list)
8) T. Thompson - 58.62% (the only Republican to break 50% on my list)
9) Gravel - 55.17%
10)Huckabee - 48.28%

Good quick test!

Thanks for posting this!

followed by other "top picks":

Clinton-76.12% :wtf:
Gravel-73.88% :shrug:
Edwards-70.90%

the "middle of the pack":
Dodd
Biden
Obama
Richardson
Paul
Giuliani
McCain
Huckabee
Thompson(Tommy)
Cox

"Bottom of the barrel":
Tancredo
Romney
Thompson(Fred)
Hunter

Kucinich is the one speaking up as much has he can, so hes my favorite by far!

Dont feel so bad - any one of our candidates could lead this country better than Bush with both hands tied behind their backs!

:kick:

I'm a Gravelite too. Who knew?

I am curious if everyone is voting for the candidate that is behind their own issues?

Interesting...the person I've been figuring would wind up as my candidate in the primaries isn't even in my top three...

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 88.89%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 74.07%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 70.37%

I changed the importance to high for four issues, all other were left at medium.

Patriot Act
Internet Neutrality
Iran Military Action
Universal Health Care


Vote for the Smart Dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMiiOF6clrY

I too was surprised to see Gravel at the top of my list. I wonder what would happen if they added Al Gore to the mix? :patriot:

Kucinich by a mile!

Your Other Top Matches

New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 73.68%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 71.05%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 71.05%

Other top matches:

New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 74.32% (this was a surprise)
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 74.32%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 71.62%

The rest:

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 69.59%
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 68.92%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 68.92%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 64.86%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 43.24%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 25.68%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 22.97%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 22.97%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 19.59%
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) - 14.19%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 12.84%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 8.78%
California Representative Duncan Hunter (R) - 6.76%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 4.05%

Gravel 75 %

Edwards 65%

Richardson 62.5 %

Biden 62.5%

Dodd 60%

Clinton 57.5 %

Obama 57.5 %

As for the republicans....

Ron Paul topped the list at 40%

Mitt Romney scraped the bottom of the barrel with 5%.


Highly interesting:


Composite Candidate

* Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich (D) - 110.87%
* Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 102.17%
* Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 95.65%
* New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 93.48%
* Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 93.48%
* Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 91.30%
* Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 91.30%
* New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 84.78%

I'm okay with it (at least it wasn't Gravel! :P)

Dennis Kucinich: 85.71%

New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) - 77.14%
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd (D) - 74.29%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) - 74.29%

Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 74.29%
Delaware Senator Joseph Biden (D) - 68.57%
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 68.57%
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 65.71%
Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 37.14%
Businessman John Cox (R) - 31.43%
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) - 31.43%
Arizona Senator John McCain (R) - 28.57%
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 22.86%
Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo (R) - 20.00%

Bottom of the Barrel (I'd put Giuliani here, personally)

Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) - 17.14%
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) - 11.43%
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) - 11.43%
Former Tennessee Senator Thompson (R) - 8.57%