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Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 06:44 PM Jan 2012

Bizarre USA Today presidential poll/game [View all]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/candidate-match-game

Sent to me as one of the constant right-wing email forwards my father bombards me with. I knew it had to be fishy, since he turns his nose up at any other newspaper other than the WSJ or Investors Business Daily. Even he knew the rightward bias, even if for bad reasons.

The questions sure seem loaded to be biased to the right. Worded so that anyone who is trying to be anything other than deliberately left would pick one of the more "reasonable sounding" answers. I answered honestly, even though I knew it was a fix, and so made my choices with this in mind.

The bizarre? The 3 most likely candidates that would fit my view were, in descending order: Barack Obama, Ron Paul, and get this....Michelle Bachman! WTF?
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