YAQ: No surprise

[vakkotaur]

Via hakeber

Your Issue Profile: 20% Obama, 80% McCain

The results are in, and John McCain is definitely your choice. You're probably not surprised. It's possible you've had your eye on McCain for years. Popular or not, you will likely stick by McCain. For you, it's a matter of principle. And besides, there's something exciting about rooting for the underdog!

Should You Vote for Obama or McCain?

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Oh, no doubt. I actually took it twice, once without filling in any answers at all, either way, and got 100% Obama. Yes, I know, it's just the simplistic scoring system, but that amused me anyway.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

I got 52% Obama and 48%McCain, which is about right, more or less. It's always a split between social or economic issues and I always find the social ones to be more important in the end.

The problem is that there is a *zero* percent chance I would ever put Palin anywhere near the white house. So.

[yakko.livejournal.com]

I got... "ObamMcCain" ...

Must be because I don't really support privatizing Social Security nor do I support robbing the rich to fund it. Or maybe it's because I support a third option on income tax policy. Or is it because while I don't agree with having my health insurance taxed as income (and no, insurance premiums will NOT go down), I don't relish the thought of a healthcare system bound with red tape? Or is it that the Iraq question (or perhaps ALL of these questions) needed a third or fourth answer?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

They do. That would then also require a third or fourth candidate. I might address that in another post, but not tonight.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

While I came out 84% Obama, the assumption that I'm a strong supporter or will definitely vote for him is dubious. As always, I will find myself voting against someone, rather than for anyone I really support.

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

"Your Issue Profile: 68% Obama, 32% McCain
While it sounds like Obama is the choice for you, he's not a perfect match.
You and John McCain actually share some of the same views."

No surprise here (actually, there is a surprise in that most of the questions I found very hard to answer, and could have answered either way; and yet the answer came out pretty much spot-on to my personal politics.)

I usually identify my personal politics as "small-c socialist", which means while I primarily identify as a left-of-centre socialist, the "small-c" is for conservative planks I've taken a shine to as I've gotten older (probably most of the conservative questions I answered on the quiz.) I still don't see myself voting for a conservative primarily on policy yet (heck, I rarely vote for anyone purely on policy, I vote for who will best represent *me* ) but in ten to fifteen years, who knows?

This is also why, while I would dearly love to run for elected office, I probably can't do so under a party banner (I'd have to be a member, and I don't agree with any party enough to join), and independents seldom win office (unless they're famous or left a party). Fortunately, at civic level or lower (ie school trustee) there are no parties (per se), I do have my eye on school trustee elections, which are scheduled for the next civic election, 2010.

[pndc.livejournal.com]

Merely *claim*? It's most obviously biased due to leading questions.

For example, "Should each state be able to decide if abortion should be legal or not?", but that fails to answer the question as to whether the federal government should be pro-choice or pro-life, which is kind of important as to whether one might prefer the states to have the option of a contrary view.

(Anyway, 64% Obama/36% McCain, apparently, if you trust the test's results.)