How come Hillary supporters can't present an argument for her?

[MADem]

512. OTI actually backs up their placement with details, as you can see if you look at the web page.

I am afraid you have hauled out an apple and proudly showed it to me and compared it to my orange and pretended they're the same--they aren't. OTI is much more data-rich than your site. Also, OTI has five boxes to put a person in--your graph only has four.

Here's the NADER orange, if you're interested: http://www.ontheissues.org/ralph_nader.htm


Ralph Nader is a Hard-Core Liberal.

And here's Hillary--this iteration isn't "Hillary Senate"--it's just Hillary--it might include campaign statements:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Hillary_Clinton.htm


Hillary Clinton is a Populist-Leaning Liberal.

I cannot get the vote match quiz to come up. The percentages page, though, suggests that this is data that was aggregated for the 08 presidential race, as opposed to the senate race. The slight bump over to a "populist" POV makes sense as she is trying to appeal to a broader audience, to include independents and crossovers.

I'm also trying to find what information about the candidates was inputted into your diagram, and I'm not having any luck. As best I can tell, this is also 2008 data.

In the examples I've provided, you can see the questions that are considered, and you can also see how the website crunched and credited the numbers because they list quotes, votes, dates, etc. There are definitive points of comparison in my examples, there's a list of how many points the candidates get for each issue, and the results are totaled on the 2nd page-- and I'm just not seeing that kind of analysis in your graph. They tell us that they input this and that, but they don't show us what went into the punch, as it were. I would like to see how they came to these conclusions.

I get a sense they are not using as much DATA, first off, to come to the conclusion in your example, and they are relying more on "feelings" as much as a few (not insignificant, mind you, but not as many) points that they analyzed. There's a lot of "seem" and "perceived" in that write up, and EVERYONE who is analyzed at your website is more to the right on their chart, even the so-called super-liberals.

http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2008

OTI won't do updated pages until the candidates start declaring for the next go-round, so we are stuck working with material that is a bit outdated and incomplete. And if someone doesn't run, all we have is their old info. I think Nader will stay home this time--he's gotta be pushing eighty. Here's hoping, anyway.