I also like the "pick another stance" option, as the issues are indeed usually too complex to answer "yes" or "no." Go ahead and take it.
The most amusing Pick another stance was for "Do you support the legalisation of ALL drugs?" with the answers being yes, no, and "Yes, but not all drugs."
I can't find that question... only one about marijuana.
Some of the segments have a small link at the bottom that expands the amount of questions presented, it's under one of those, in the same section as the Marijuana question.
The utility of these things is limited anyway, because the stances of the candidates are based on their espoused platforms moreso than their actions. Obama broke a lot of promises and has a lot of promises left to fulfill (or not fulfill).
My figure for Republican agreement is pretty troubling. I guess it's my stance on gun control and farm subsidies that did it? I couldn't find fine enough distinctions for one or two of them.
I am also not a fan of the Green Party, but I got these results. However, I can't vote, so I don't have to learn more in order to fulfill my duty as an informed voter.
Looking more carefully at my breakdown, I agree with Jill Stein 100% on the issues least important to me. I agree with Mitt Romney 88% on economic issues, which is most important to me, and Gary Johnson 86% on domestic issues, 2nd most important. Again, good thing I don't have to vote, otherwise this would cause conflict with me.
As I recall, Jill Stein was the Green Party candidate for governor in Massachusetts the year that Romney won. I also want to redo it now that I see there's more sub options than I originally thought which I support.
I feel alone now having posted that, I'm the only one who majorly agrees with Romney.
The quiz is fairly inaccurate. It does a better job at figuring out your vote than most people can, but its math is off. It doesn't consider how close two options are to each other. I actually agree with Alexander Stewart way more than Gary Johnson(Gary was my man, but then I found out he wants to get rid of public schools -- which would leave me in a bit of a rough spot, since I didn't get into any private schools, but frequently I wouldn't check the additional options, so I missed a lot of Stewart's answers. The best example of this was the "Should We Legalize All Drugs?" My answer was "Yes," his was "Yes, and retroactively reduce sentences of criminals already charged with drug related offenses." Of course I agree with this, but I didn't notice it so it counted as me disagreeing with him on the issue.
Just about all these polls, while decent about predicting who you would vote for, are not so good about determining just where you stand on various issues. I came up with Jill Stein with 71% and Obama at 70% on this one, for example, but I also found myself strongly agreeing with Ron Paul, of all people, on a subset of the issues (88% agreement, though I forget which subset).
I've also found that a lot of these quizzes show me as being more liberal than I actually consider myself (I personally consider myself a moderate). Maybe it's because a lot of these polls are all about black and white issues as opposed to the finer shades of gray I tend to see in actuality,
Just about all these polls, while decent about predicting who you would vote for, are not so good about determining just where you stand on various issues. I came up with Jill Stein with 71% and Obama at 70% on this one, for example, but I also found myself strongly agreeing with Ron Paul, of all people, on a subset of the issues (88% agreement, though I forget which subset).
That doesn't make it inaccurate. It showed that I sided 100% with Stein on Immigration and Environment because I do, I just don't care much about those issues. Maybe you agreed strongly with Paul on Foreign Policy, the stance that put him in an elite group of politicians that I would call "sane" for about 5 years.
Well, some of it just seems pretty vague and I'm not sure how it said we agree. For example, Ron Paul is 100% against any gun control. I'm in favor of gun control to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons and the mentally ill. I'm not sure how well that matches up. Or how about global warming? I said yes, and Paul said "Yes, but the government shouldn't use any resources to fight it." There are a lot of other weird things there that I'm not sure how they match up. Plus the really odd one is the federal minimum wage, mostly because there is no nuance to that answer. Paul is 100% against the federal minimum wage. I chose "let the states decide," but only because what constitutes a living wage varies from state to state based on cost of living. A high CoL state like MA or NY would require a much higher minimum wage for someone to survive on than a low CoL state like North Dakota -- hence why the states should set it as they can adjust it to their local CoL.
The only reason Ron Paul shows up for anyone here is simply that the rest of his positions/issues aren't in the poll. If every stance he currently holds were in there associated with a question, he's probably hover around 0%. ;^)
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Thanks guys. Now I feel stupid for having to Wikipedia Jill Stein because I've never heard of her.
Tie between Gary Johnson and Jill Stein @66%. Obama 62%. Romney 21%. Apparently me and Virgil Goode would not agree on much of anything.
I took it pretty honestly.
My figure for Republican agreement is pretty troubling. I guess it's my stance on gun control and farm subsidies that did it? I couldn't find fine enough distinctions for one or two of them.
Also, why was "Evolution is a fact, not a theory" in the choose another stance menu?
I am also not a fan of the Green Party, but I got these results. However, I can't vote, so I don't have to learn more in order to fulfill my duty as an informed voter.
Short of burning the mother down, things aren't going to change a whole hell of a lot very quickly.
As I recall, Jill Stein was the Green Party candidate for governor in Massachusetts the year that Romney won.
I also want to redo it now that I see there's more sub options than I originally thought which I support.
I've also found that a lot of these quizzes show me as being more liberal than I actually consider myself (I personally consider myself a moderate). Maybe it's because a lot of these polls are all about black and white issues as opposed to the finer shades of gray I tend to see in actuality,