Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Find Your Candidate for 08
Take this candidates quiz to see who you should vote for. Post your results in the comments. My top two candiates based on my responses were Dennis Kucinich (73%) and Chris Dodd (60%). My highest ranking repugnantcan was, no surprise, Ron Paul at 40%. My worst scoring candidate was Mormon Mitt (4%).
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My top 2 were Barack Obama (50%) and John McCain (45%). Billery was at 43%. Things get even more interesting when broken down by economic and social issues. Billery was 31% social issues and 50% economic. Barack was 50/50
ReplyDeleteMichelle's top two were Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich.
ReplyDeleteMcCain? Dude, I hardly knew ye...
When I looked at Obama's stances on the selected issues I saw why he ranks so low for me-says drug use is immoral and wants to continue to punish it, and wants to increase military funding.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the only Dem who ranked lower than him was Rcihardson, who actaully ranked below both Guiliani and Paul for me.
Hillary was my top Dem, lowest was Joe Biden. Who the hell is Mark Gravel? He came in second for me. Maybe I'm just not paying enough attention.
ReplyDeleteMike Gravel is a former Alaska senator who lives in a tiny apartment in Rosslyn. He is anti-war, pro-environment, and pro-slashing the military spending to invest in the people of this country. His campaign is bankrupt so he isn't allowed in the debates anymore, but in the ones they let him debate in he was great.
ReplyDeleteKev, why do we need more defense spending? We already spend more than nearly every country on earth combined! Our defense budget is bigger than the entire government budget of most countries. The reason the troops don't have armor is because of priorities. Money doesn't go toward the guys on the front line. Look at this Blackwater security group getting a contract to pay private soldiers 100k a year in Iraq while our soldiers make between 20-30k annually.
Well, the questions are so nuanced, the actual question was more spending on armed forces. I didn't read into it more defense spending, as though we needed to be spending more on weapons, etc. All I'm saying, if you're going to send people into a stupid war to begin with you can at least equip them and spend more than 20-30K annually on our actual guys rather than send them anywhere with no armor, expect the poor to enlist for the measly sum of 20-30K, etc. I'm all for supporting the troops with services to families, services (like adequate health care and psych care) to the troops. I agree with the priorities being the issue. Maybe if they asked "should the gov't shift it's priorities to increase spending on the troops" my answer would have made more sense.
ReplyDeleteWe sub-contract our wars.
ReplyDeleteHow 21st century is that? Wait, I guess it's not.
I'll vote for anyone who lives in a tiny apartment. That should have been a question in the quiz.
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