{"id":7167,"date":"2004-10-15T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/15\/id-hoped-this-would-help.html"},"modified":"2004-10-15T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T19:23:50","slug":"id_hoped_this_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/15\/id_hoped_this_w.html","title":{"rendered":"I’d hoped this would help"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the President Match<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

I dislike the “No Opinion” (vs “Conflicted Opinion” or “The question oversimplifies the issue into a simple statement”) phrasing. I like that you could then weight the different types of questions\/policy areas — but I discovered that the weighting really didn’t make that much difference in my final analysis, which seemed odd (indeed, ratcheting up the “Security\/Foreign Policy” slider to either extreme only affected things a percent or two, which is very <\/em>odd given my responses and the two candidates).<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, I came up Kerry meeting 53% of my criteria, Bush 36%.<\/p>\n

Hrm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the President Match game. I dislike the “No Opinion” (vs “Conflicted Opinion” or “The question oversimplifies the issue into a simple statement”) phrasing. I like that you could then…<\/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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/23\/anybody_but_bus.html","url_meta":{"origin":7167,"position":0},"title":"Anybody but Bush, apparently","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Feb-04 10:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I like John Kerry best. 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