Candomatic

Via Blogomodleft, I tried "Selectsmart.com", which features a "2004 American Presidential Candidates Selector".

Methodologically, these things are usually deeply flawed, and this is no exception. Here's an example:

13. ABORTION POLICY Regarding the following special interest groups, my ideal candidate will generally support the positions of:
Planned Parenthood,
National Right to Life Committee,
No preference/None of the above/Prefer alternate solutions

Nowhere do I see "dollops of Christian and Libertarian teaching thrown in to boot - and I think both national groups are wrong", which is the answer that'd be accurate in my case.

Still, after churning through a couple of dozen questions, I got my answers:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%) Click here for info
2. Bush, President George W. - Republican (74%) Click here for info
3. Libertarian Candidate (55%) Click here for info

This is not much different than the list I'd put together myself, actually.

The next four aren't so bad...

4. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (47%) Click here for info
5. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (46%) Click here for info
6. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (42%) Click here for info
7. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (38%) Click here for info

If you held a gun to my head and said "Mitch, you need to vote for a Democrat", I'd probably pick one of these - although in Edwards' case, only if the gun was small-caliber enough to maybe not kill me instantly. Still, the DLC Democrats are slightly less-noxious than the rest.

However, this next one...

8. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (35%) Click here for info

...proves that someone in this transaction is mad, and incidentally it's not me. I'd vote for Idi Amin before Dennis Kucinich.

The rest of the list:

9. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (30%) Click here for info
10. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (28%) Click here for info
11. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (15%) Click here for info
12. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (13%) Click here for info
13. Green Party Candidate (11%) Click here for info
14. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (7%) Click here for info
15. Socialist Candidate (5%) Click here for info
16. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (5%) Click here for info

So I guess it's not that far off - I'd vote for Amin before any of the bottom eight.

At least he's dead.

Anyway - if nothing else, it's better than the "Which World Leader Are You" debacle from last week.

Posted by Mitch at January 5, 2004 06:01 AM