{"id":5547,"date":"2004-02-23T22:19:15","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/23\/anybody-but-bush-apparently.html"},"modified":"2004-02-23T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T05:19:15","slug":"anybody_but_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/23\/anybody_but_bus.html","title":{"rendered":"Anybody but Bush, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like John Kerry best.<\/p>\n<p>And Howard Dean, after him.<\/p>\n<p>Then John Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>And I even like Kucinich and (gack!) Sharpton significantly better than I like Bush.<\/p>\n<p>At least according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentmatch.com\/\">this quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problems with this quiz, though, are multitude:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most tremendous problem is the apparent assumption that each of the subject areas, and each of the questions within each subject area, should be weighted equally.  My feelings on welfare reform or ANWR drilling pale in importance vs. my feelings on, say, the War in Iraq.\n<li>The phrasing of the questions in some cases is dubious (e.g., &#8220;Federal funding for religious charities,&#8221; when the issue is whether religous charities should be allowed to seek federal grants alongside non-religious charities).\n<li>&#8220;No Opinion&#8221; may be &#8220;Mixed Feelings&#8221; or &#8220;Depends on the Implementation.&#8221;  Those are nuances beyond this quiz, but they are important ones.\n<li>And, of course, there are imponderables about the candidates, or feelings about their personalities, beyond what position bullet points would indicate.<\/ul>\n<p>Not to say that the test is biased in any way (though the second bullet point makes me think it&#8217;s got a slant to it), but it would be interesting to see if there is a balance in GOP vs Dem policy points (and to debate whether there should be).  Without weighting, though, the quiz is next to useless.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <b>Avocet<\/b>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like John Kerry best. And Howard Dean, after him. Then John Edwards. And I even like Kucinich and (gack!) Sharpton significantly better than I like Bush. 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