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iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:02 am
by _bcspace
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.
http://www.iSideWith.comhttp://politicalcompass.org/
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:50 am
by _Bret Ripley
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.
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:34 am
by _krose
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?
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:44 pm
by _Drifting
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?
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:02 pm
by _Bret Ripley
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):

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.
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:14 pm
by _bcspace
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.
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:42 am
by _bcspace
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.
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:08 pm
by _Analytics
That was fun. I side with:
Jill Stein: 87%
Barack Obama: 85%
Gary Johnson: 83%
Mitt Romney: 23%
American Voters: 60%
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:05 pm
by _Analytics
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.
Re: iSideWith.com
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:11 pm
by _bcspace
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.