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Not really surprised. Picking none of the above for some questions, apparently leads CNN to think alternate "blind dates" for me would be Ron or Rick because hey I matched on at least a FEW pigeonholes.

As shown on this thread my results were

However, I found the survey to be very lacking in important issues. There were no questions on issues like gitmo, civil rights, privacy, the NDAA, SOAPA, PIP, innocents on death row, or a thousand other issues that are important to me.

Had a real survey been done, Ron Paul would have still scored about 50% and all other candidates would be in the 0 to 10% range.

Dont' know how to share it but mine were:

1) Ron Paul
2) Bachman
3) Santorum

I'm not sure if this test is very realistic considering the candidate stances vs what they can actually accomplish being in the executive branch.

The questions and issues were skewed and don't accurately convey what my answer would be. By lack of options, the survey assumes that I wouldn't just stay home, if my solutions for the important issues were not implemented. Like in military spending, medical issues(obmamacare and medicare as well as SS) my solutions were either more simple or require a bigger government role. But less of an administrative role. The government should be the person you call, when companies aren't doing right by government guidelines. Not the secret police making the cost of doing business prohibitive for small business, to the point, they don't pose a collective competitive personal edge over large Boxtailers. That can afford these fees and compliance costs, and even actually lobbied for them for this very benefit.

Somewhere between, nanny laws, and a full hands off approach, I think America has been successful at creating a true environment of opportunity for all socioeconomic classes. I think the direction both the Right and the Left at this point are going with our economic polices are equally disastrous. Modern Politics is a Analog of Modern music. I was perfect then, now it's just crap. No matter what the kid at the apple store says.

Well at least the test was smart enough to know I would vote for Ron Paul. There is no second and third at this point. Other than I will be obliged to vote for the GOP candidate regardless of who it is. Any new guy will have to go through 4 years of political wrangling just to get anything resembling his issues implemented. So what their issues are, and what they might do, is not as scary as what will Obama will be capable of, after a term that he already had four years to stack the deck further against the little guy.

FortWayne says

I'm not sure if this test is very realistic considering the candidate stances

I don't think the test is accurate because it assumes that what the candidates say is what they will try to do. Voting records are all that count. That's why I judge politicians by what they have done as recorded on http://OnTheIssues.org. It's an honest source for just the facts.

somehow I got New Gingrich

Candidates most like me:

1. Obama
2. Huntsman
3. Gingrich

I don't know how Gingrich got in the list because I disagree with him on 99% of issues. The guy is literally saying he will balance the budget and cut spending while simutaneously proposing spending billions of dollars on a moon colony.

If I did vote, I'd pick Obama again. Yes he's been a fairly ineffective President, but we could have elected Harry Houdini and he couldn't have pulled a miracle to save the economy. The funniest thing is when he did have the support when he was first elected and tried to change things, people panicked and elected a bunch of Republicans in congress tipping the balance of power. We have a dysfunctional government now. The republicans block Obama every chance they get. It's all your not a republican, why should we support you BS. Obama isn't anyone special, but he's really not doing that bad of a job considering.

However I don't vote, Voting (or more specifically registering to vote) gets you on the Jury selection process, and my Piece of Sh#t company doesn't pay me when I'm on a jury, so lost $$$ for me if I'm picked.

Obama will go down in History as the first black American President in History, and people will say look what happened last time we picked a black president he screwed the economy up big time, not going to make the mistake again. But the reality is years of Republican presidents and congresses funding the future on debt created this problem. Obama was the one that got stuck with the bill and blame. If he was elected 8 or 12 years from now where the country finally recovers from this economic downturn, he would have been remembered as a great president, he lead the country to prosperity again.

Clinton wasn't anything special. He just happened to take office during a economic upswing and is remembered as a great president because of it. There's nothing he specially did to cause the economy to get better. Unfortunately Presidents are pawns in situations far beyond there control the government has no where near enough power to stop an economic down turn. The best they can do it try and keep the good times going long as possible and keep the bad times short as possible. The recession (or depression) / Bubble economic cycle has been going on since the 1800's at least, probably a lot longer. I remember reading about Spain, in the 1600's, so much gold was imported from South America that it actually caused inflation in Spain. The the bubble/bust cycle me have existed even then

1. Willie H. Nelson
2. Calvin C. Broadus, Jr.
3. Thomas B. Kin Chong

I answered every question with "Increase botanical imports from Mexico". Seems like these gentlemen would be as sufficient as the current trough of candidates.

I think the title of the post should be...

"Who is singing your song."

Those issues for people like Newt are window dressing, much like how the new task force to investigate Mortgage security fraud pre 2007, are the same assholes that Obama had take a look see in 2009. They didn't find any thing then, what makes Shitcakes think they'll come up with an eventual outcome now?

GameOver says

I have several:

I prefer a candidate who will be good on gay rights.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZZ5LpwO-An4

Remember when we used to watch cartoons like this? If that didn't turn us gay, then all that talk about Tinky Winky and Sponge Bob is a load of crap. By the way, why did Skeletor have muscles? He was a skeleton!

No Jill Stein or Kent Mesplay?!
The USA Today quiz jammed my answers at 2/11 into a match with Ron Paul. That actually illustrates pretty well how represented I am by U.S. politicians. Way to go USA Today, you might not be as thin a paper as I thought.

Anyone catch this candidate on the CSPAN broadcast of the "lesser known" candidates. Go find it now! Amazing. In some ways, this guy, in his nearly absolute rejection of societal norms, is far more capable of making change than any of the candidates likely to win.

http://www.verminsupreme.com/