devilsfan26 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 ISideWith.com I think this quiz is cool because you can say how much each issue matters to you and if you click "Choose another stance" there are some more specific choices if your opinion on something isn't so black and white. Here's my results 78% Gary Johnson 75% Ron Paul 73% Jill Stein 65% Stewart Alexander 63% Barack Obama 13% Jimmy McMillan 10% Mitt Romney 7% Virgil Goode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Gary Johnson with 85 percent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishyx Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 No real surprise for me 86% - Barack Obama 77% - Jill Stein 73% - Gary Johnson 54% - Mitt Romney 44% - Ron Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I looked at the explanations, and obviously the results are imperfect. For instance, I'm generally a supporter of Israel, so I just answered "yes" to whether the US "should continue to support Israel." Gary Johnson's view on the issue, roughly speaking, is that the US should continue to be an ally of Israel (as opposed to, say, Ron Paul who says we shouldn't take sides at all), but only that we shouldn't provide aid. I take that to mean, US companies should be free to sell most military hardware to Israel, but that the taxpayer should not subsidize the purchases, just like we don't with Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, Canada, South Korea, etc. I also think the PATRIOT Act question is inane. The vast majority of it either has nothing to do with surveillance (for instance, one of the provisions extends money laundering prohibitions extraterritorily) or are completely uncontroversial (giving the FBI the power to monitor suspected terrorists in the same manner that it has been doing with respect to organized crime for decades). But yeah, it's just for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Obviously the other flaw is that it takes the candidates' "official position" on various issues. So on the gun control issue, I suspect that Obama would actually want to impose strict federal gun control laws, but is not pushing the issue for political reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 94% Ron Paul 94% Mitt Romney 81% Gary Johnson 16% Barack Obama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghdi Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I also think the PATRIOT Act question is inane. The vast majority of it either has nothing to do with surveillance (for instance, one of the provisions extends money laundering prohibitions extraterritorily) or are completely uncontroversial (giving the FBI the power to monitor suspected terrorists in the same manner that it has been doing with respect to organized crime for decades). Theres other answers available than yes/no, i.e. "Yes, but limit the scope of the gov'ts powers". Heck, most of my answers were from the "choose another stance" bar a few that I was pretty clear yes/no on. Not surprised at my results. Stein, Obama (both in the 70-80% range) Johnson, Paul (both in the 60-70% range). After Paul was some guy called Stewart Johnson who I've never even heard of and the Rent Is Too Damn High guy followed by the hard right guys Mitt and Goode. I like how it calculated the state results. I sided with 86% of NJ that have done this and 60% of the country. I agreed with Mitt on immigration only (30% total). Lowest was Virgil Goode. 15%! One thing Im noticing with a lot of our collective results is that many of us have Gary Johnson or Paul relatively high, but the major parties are far more polarizing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevsMan84 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 99% Romney 90% Paul 70% Johnson 21% Obama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglejelly Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I missed the question “do you think the rent is too damn high” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishyx Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I missed the question “do you think the rent is too damn high” I miss McMillan, I wish he ran for President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 I miss McMillan, I wish he ran for President It would be much better if he won the Megamillions and Powerball and bought my apartment building. My rent would cease to be too damned high without having to vote for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishyx Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 It would be much better if he won the Megamillions and Powerball and bought my apartment building. My rent would cease to be too damned high without having to vote for him. But then.. who is going to let you marry a shoe?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Dose Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 94% Ron Paul 94% Mitt Romney 81% Gary Johnson 16% Barack Obama 99% Romney 90% Paul 70% Johnson 21% Obama These sound like results for right wing extremists (unless you didn't answer the questions seriously). Like them or not, Obama and Romney are both fairly mainstream candidates for America, and hold positions that have general favorability. Look at squishyx's results; yes a large percentage for Obama, but more than 50% for Romney as well. I'm sure you both know who you are and don't need some test to tell you or make you feel comfortable with yourself. I'm just a little bit surprised. *A caveat: this test may have been made to be good at estimating "Most compatible" without much thought for how good it would be at estimating "Least compatible." That's a very real possibility, and if this thing is not meant to be at all scientific, then my bad. Either way, I don't mean to be accusatory.* Me: Obama 83% Economic, Domestic, Sience, Social Stein 65% Healthcare Johnson 58% Immigration, Environmental Romney 51% Immigration Paul 43% Foreign Policy, Environmental, Immigration New Jersey Voters 31% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsfan26 Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 These sound like results for right wing extremists (unless you didn't answer the questions seriously). Like them or not, Obama and Romney are both fairly mainstream candidates for America, and hold positions that have general favorability. Look at squishyx's results; yes a large percentage for Obama, but more than 50% for Romney as well. I'm sure you both know who you are and don't need some test to tell you or make you feel comfortable with yourself. I'm just a little bit surprised. I don't know I got 10% for Romney but over 70% for both Paul and Johnson. Just because Obama and Romney aren't somewhere in the middle or higher doesn't mean you didn't answer them seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onddeck Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Im on my phone so I won't be able to do the quiz. But what a great question, I have no idea where ill land. I feel like I really dislike both front runners so this will definitely be interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsadvoc8 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Gary Johnson 90% Ron Paul 85% Mitt Romney 76% Barack Obama 54% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneykoIsGod Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Ron Paul 78% & Gary Johnson 78% Mitt Romney 74% Barack Obama 66% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Obama 87% Stein 78% Alexander (no idea who he is) 61% Johnson 55% McMillan 28% Paul 24% Romney 18% Goode 5% I'm surprised at the discrepancy between Johnson and Paul. Maybe because I picked other for a bunch of choices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Leeds Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Romney 95% Obummer 19% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsfan26 Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Romney 95% Obummer 19% What about the other six candidates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 (edited) Romney 91% Ron Paul 84% Gary Johnson 76% Virgil Goode 64% Jimmy McMillan 44% Barack Obama 15% Jill Stein 4% Stewart Alexander 1% NJ 24% American Voters 59% I'm pretty equally Libertarian and Republican, which doesn't surprise me since my economic answers tend to overwhelm anything else on quizzes like this. Edit: I didn't see there were more questions if you expanded things. Jill Stein got a nice 3% bump up. Edited July 22, 2012 by Devils731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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devilsfan26 Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 (edited) Just found this map based on results from this questionnaire. Apparently if people voted just based on the issues, Gary Johnson would be kicking some serious ass. Edited July 24, 2012 by devilsfan26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Just found this map based on results from this questionnaire. Apparently if people voted just based on the issues, Gary Johnson would be kicking some serious ass. People only vote loosely on issues. Always have, always will. In fact, most people have only a vague idea of what the issues are. My favorite example is that for all of the debate about Roe v. Wade. For the amount of people that rank abortion as one of their most important issues, my guess (I haven't been able to find a link) is that 70 percent of the electorate has no clue what the holding actually was, and many more people probably wouldn't understand the basic reasoning behind the majority and the dissent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Dose Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 It would be nice if they totaled those electoral votes for us. I did it myself. Stein 7 Paul 15.5 Romney 21 Obama 214 Johnson 280.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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