Based on a fairly decent policy position quiz, here are my optimal choices. At a minimum, I lose about 25% of my “ideal.”
Your Results:
 | 1. | Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) |
| | 2. | Joseph Biden (76%) Information link |
| | 3. | Hillary Clinton (75%) Information link |
| | 4. | Bill Richardson (70%) Information link |
| | 5. | Michael Bloomberg (70%) Information link |
| | 6. | Dennis Kucinich (68%) Information link |
| | 7. | Al Gore (65%) Information link |
| | 8. | John Edwards (65%) Information link |
| | 9. | Wesley Clark (64%) Information link |
| | 10. | Barack Obama (63%) Information link |
| | 11. | Christopher Dodd (57%) Information link |
| | 12. | Alan Augustson (56%) Information link |
| | 13. | Mike Gravel (51%) Information link |
| | 14. | John McCain (48%) Information link |
| | 15. | Mike Huckabee (44%) Information link |
| | 16. | Ron Paul (43%) Information link |
| | 17. | Kent McManigal (41%) Information link |
| | 18. | Chuck Hagel (39%) Information link |
 | 19. | Rudolph Giuliani (38%) Information link |
| | 20. | Mitt Romney (37%) Information link |
| | 21. | Tommy Thompson (35%) Information link |
| | 22. | Newt Gingrich (33%) Information link |
| | 23. | Elaine Brown (32%) Information link |
| | 24. | Sam Brownback (31%) Information link |
| | 25. | Fred Thompson (29%) Information link |
| | 26. | Tom Tancredo (28%) Information link |
| | 27. | Duncan Hunter (23%) Information link |
| | 28. | Jim Gilmore (19%) Information link |
Note: If you take the quiz yourself, after you do your answers, there’s an intrusive ad page soliciting personal info. Just click the link at the top to bypass all that crap.
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I’m apparently a bit easier to please than ***Dave is, having six candidates above 75%.
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100 %)
2. Dennis Kucinich (86 %)
3. Barack Obama (79 %)
4. Alan Augustson (78 %)
5. Hillary Clinton (76 %)
6. Al Gore (76 %)
7. Joseph Biden (76 %)
8. Wesley Clark (73 %)
9. Christopher Dodd (71 %)
10. Michael Bloomberg (71 %)
11. John Edwards (70 %)
12. Mike Gravel (70 %)
13. Kent McManigal (67 %)
14. Bill Richardson (62 %)
15. Ron Paul (53 %)
16. Elaine Brown (41 %)
17. Rudolph Giuliani (35 %)
18. Mitt Romney (32 %)
19. John McCain (30 %)
20. Chuck Hagel (26 %)
21. Tommy Thompson (25 %)
22. Newt Gingrich (23 %)
23. Mike Huckabee (20 %)
24. Tom Tancredo (17 %)
25. Fred Thompson (16 %)
26. Sam Brownback (14 %)
27. Duncan Hunter (13 %)
28. Jim Gilmore (8 %)
My best bet is apparently Dennis Kucinich (64%), though Alan Augstson gets 67%, he is apparently no longer running.
What a great tool!
Mine looks almost identical to Avocet’s.
http://www.boulderdude.com/2007/07/so_dave_found_this_little.html
So, Dave found this little Presidential Candidate test and of course I took it: 1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) 2. Dennis Kucinich (76%) Information link 3. Barack Obama (76%) &n…
My low scores may be because, as a “centrist” (as BD puts it), I tend to take a more moderate, nuanced (or, if you will, wishy-washy) stance on most topics, and so avoid the all-or-nothing binary choices of most political policy rhetoric (at least that which can be captured in a quiz like this).
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (72%) Information link
3. Alan Augustson (71%) Information link
4. Barack Obama (71%) Information link
5. Wesley Clark (65%) Information link
6. Al Gore (64%) Information link
7. John Edwards (62%) Information link
8. Christopher Dodd (61%) Information link
9. Joseph Biden (61%) Information link
10. Hillary Clinton (58%)
And Duncan Hunter dead last at 7%, which is not a surprise since he’s local to me and I always end up opposed to his positions. And I’m not surprise by Kicinish either, I felt that way in the last election. Obama very close, which doesn’t bother me, and I think Hilary falls because of my answer to the question about opposition of the war. And, though there was no question about opposition to legacy votes, my mantra for this election is ” No More Legacies!”
And apropo of nothing else, did you know that Barbara Bush is a direct decendent of Franklin Pierce. Talk about a legacy of ineptitude – in his re-election bid, Pierce didn’t get the nomination of his own party.
Kucinich is more than a bit shrill for my taste (though he still rated pretty high for me).
I couldn’t remember what this quiz had told me earlier, so I searched your blog for this post. Then, on a whim, I did the quiz again because it’s been updated since the last time I did it. This time it tells me that Clinton is my best fit. Either my views have changed over time, or the quiz measures things a little differently now (or both). Looking at the detailed data on the candidates, I think I prefer Bill Richardson over Hillary Clinton, so I don’t really know why the quiz says otherwise.
Part of it may have to do with personal / emotional connection or nuances in what you think of a candidate, vs. straight policy position items. That could include your sense of how authentic the candidates are in their positions.