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quakerboy

(14,921 posts)
15. Yup.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:29 AM
Jan 2012

All any of these quizzes do for me is to show me how none of the candidates have the right position on most of the issues.

If I have to pick the "best" answer, I end up with Obama first, and then Paul.

If, like this one, I have a "none of the above" option, I end up with Paul first, Obama second. Because I don't agree with any of them on most of the answers. And I agree with Paul that we should get the heck out of Afghanistan now, if for entirely different reasons.

I would say that these quizzes would be the most use to a Republican trying to pick between their crappy options. For a democrat they are basically useless. None of the candidates agree with me, but there is only one candidate who has a majority of opinions that are even remotely, vaguely acceptable.

It would be interesting if they started bringing in some of the smaller candidates into the quizzes. I'm sure the Greens will/are run someone, also the independents, the Libertarians, the constitutionalists, the socialists, etc. But that wouldn't fit the narrative. Still, it would be interesting to see those small candidates included just so that people had an option to see if there were any candidates/parties that truly aligned with their beliefs.

I wonder if anyone really lines up with Vermin Supreme on the issues?

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