Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchell, and Dean...

[vakkotaur]

Actually a different Dean. And not even him, but some eager supporter thereof. An LJ-posting with bold text urgently urged, "Go see what Dem. the all powerful Selector picks for you!!"

The selector is here: http://www.selectsmart.com/president/

My results are that it doesn't pick a Dem. as most compatible. Nor even as second best. Nor even third best. In my case Bush (not a Democrat party member last I checked) came in second as around 80% compatible. And Phillip Howard of the Constitution Party came in third around 70%. But with 100% compatibility was... "Libertarian" with no specific candidate named. The most compatible (or rather, least incompatible) Dem. scored a mere 41%. Somehow I doubt that's what the Dean supporter expected.

I do wonder how the scale works. I would expect 0% on the low end, but Lyndon LaRouche falls all the way down to -15%. Aside from the curious mathematics, that bothers me not one little bit.

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Lyons and Tygers and Beares, oh my...

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Well, well... Seems some LJ user and Dean supporter is a little Dem happy, eh? I normally vote Libertarian. I didn't this last time, because I wanted my vote to count for the candidate that had the best and only chance of beating Bush. Thanks to the Supreme Court, it seems that even elections don't matter any more. Anyway...

I went to SelectSmart. Apparently I should vote for Dennis Kucinich (a Dem), who matched my ideas 100%. The Dean supporter would be happy to know that Dean came in second, at 94%.

The Green Party (no name) came in 6th at 82%.

The Socialist came in 15th at 61%.

The Libertarian - tied for 16th at 60% with Marcy Kaptur. (I only limited choices to those that have not dropped from the race - potential candidates got their percentages viewed by me.)

The highest ranked Republican was John McCain - 20th, with 29%. Bush came in 24th, with 13%.

The 25th through 27th place finishers (the bottom three), all scored below 0% - Tom Vilsack at -1%, and LaRouche and Wesley Clark tied for the bottom at -11%.