{"id":11278,"date":"2007-10-04T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T04:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/04\/strange-bedfellows-in-08.html"},"modified":"2007-10-04T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T04:16:14","slug":"strange_bedfellows_in_08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/strange_bedfellows_in_08.html","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows in &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vote!\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/voting-butterfly.jpg\" width=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My positions (as judged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wqad.com\/Global\/link.asp?L=259460\" target=\"_blank\">relatively simplistic questions<\/a>) most closely align with <strong>John Edwards <\/strong>and &#8230; <strong>Bill Richardson<\/strong>?&nbsp; With <strong>Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama<\/strong>, and <strong>Hillary Clinton <\/strong>tied immediately behind.&nbsp; (Though I disagree with all of them on a number of things.)<\/p>\n<p>Most different from my positions?&nbsp; <strong>Fred Thomson, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo<\/strong>, and <strong>Mike Huckabee<\/strong>.&nbsp; Okay, I can feel good about that, at least.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Mom)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My positions (as judged by relatively simplistic questions) most closely align with John Edwards and &#8230; Bill Richardson?&nbsp; With Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton tied immediately behind.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12077,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/my_candidate_probably.html","url_meta":{"origin":11278,"position":0},"title":"My candidate &#8230; probably","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Nov-07 8:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"At Dave N.'s suggestion, I re-ran this \"Who's your ideal candidate?\" test, which looks at policy positions both of the candidates and of my own (positions and weighting). 1.\u00a0 Theoretical...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectsmart.com\/plus\/fade.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10420,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/let_the_games_begin.html","url_meta":{"origin":11278,"position":1},"title":"Let the games begin","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 20-Jan-07 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sen. 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Let's just hope the Dems can figure...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/08\/my_candidate_maybe.html","url_meta":{"origin":11278,"position":2},"title":"My candidate &#8230; maybe","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jul-07 1:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Based on a fairly decent policy position quiz, here are my optimal choices.\u00a0 At a minimum, I lose about 25% of my \"ideal.\" Your Results:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Theoretical Ideal Candidate \u00a0\u00a0(100%)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectsmart.com\/plus\/fade.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/the_one_true_litmus_test.html","url_meta":{"origin":11278,"position":3},"title":"The One True Litmus Test","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-May-07 8:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: My serious goof. 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