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Mitt Romney 96%
Gary Johnson 80%
Virgil Goode 67%
Barack Obama 27%

My State 49%
American Voters 50%

Not completely satisfied with the questions even though many had some good additional options for me to choose from to further nuance my answer. Better than most polls I've seen. PoliticalCompass is also good imho.

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Jill Stein 93%
Barack Obama 87%
Gary Johnson 76%
Mitt Romney 10%

Parties:
Green 96%
Democrat 96%
Libertarian 34%
Republican 3%

Apparently, I am quite the pinko.
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The question is, which Romney is reflected in the responses? The "severe conservative" from a few months ago, or the guy from the debates who has now abandoned so many conservative views?
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krose wrote:The question is, which Romney is reflected in the responses? The "severe conservative" from a few months ago, or the guy from the debates who has now abandoned so many conservative views?


Can you give a specific example of this?
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Bret Ripley wrote:Jill Stein 93%
Barack Obama 87%
Gary Johnson 76%
Mitt Romney 10%

Parties:
Green 96%
Democrat 96%
Libertarian 34%
Republican 3%

Apparently, I am quite the pinko.

At least http://politicalcompass.org/ says I'm not a classical pinko (that would be the upper-left of the graph):

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I'm not happy with some of the absolute language used in the questions, but I do appreciate how the graph stomps on the notion that in the grand scheme of things Obama is some sort of leftist. The truth is that there is no viable liberal political party in the US.
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The truth is that there is no viable liberal political party in the US


Sure there is. You just have to look for classical liberals. I'm one.
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http://politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?Rick_Santorum=7.0%2C8.5&Newt_Gingrich=8.0%2C7.5&Mitt_Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Ron_Paul=9.0%2C-1.0&Barack_Obama=6.0%2C6.0&You=4.8%2C0.1%3Cdiv%20style=

I've taken the politicalcompass test at least four times over the years. It seems like the questions are a little different each time. But each time, I'm always in about the same place.

Economic Left/Right: 4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05

I highly disagree with their assessment of Obama whose economic Left/Right should be negative, not positive.
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That was fun. I side with:

Jill Stein: 87%
Barack Obama: 85%
Gary Johnson: 83%
Mitt Romney: 23%
American Voters: 60%
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bcspace wrote:http://politicalcompass.org/charts/crowdgraphpng.php?Rick_Santorum=7.0%2C8.5&Newt_Gingrich=8.0%2C7.5&Mitt_Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Ron_Paul=9.0%2C-1.0&Barack_Obama=6.0%2C6.0&You=4.8%2C0.1%3Cdiv%20style=

I've taken the politicalcompass test at least four times over the years. It seems like the questions are a little different each time. But each time, I'm always in about the same place.

Economic Left/Right: 4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05

I highly disagree with their assessment of Obama whose economic Left/Right should be negative, not positive.


I agree with their assessment of Obama--if you judge Obama on what he actually says and does (as opposed to what Fox says he "really" thinks), he is in fact right-center.
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I agree with their assessment of Obama--if you judge Obama on what he actually says and does (as opposed to what Fox says he "really" thinks), he is in fact right-center


No, he talks centerish but is actually left in deed. Romney too should be shifted more to the left. Not into negative territory like Obama but certainly left of me.
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