SELECT A CANDIDATE QUIZ(Find out which candidates are most aligned with your views and opinions.)

wqad.com ^ | 1/14/2008 | staff

[kellynla]

Answer the 11 questions below to find out which candidates are most aligned with your views and opinions. You may skip questions if you do not want them factored into the results. This quiz is not meant to pick your candidate for you. It is designed to inform the public of the various stances candidates make. Results are not scientific. The WQAD candidate survey is based on the original SELECT A CANDIDATE survey developed by Minnesota Public Radio and posted at: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/. Used by permission.

[LukeL]

ugh, it picked Ron Paul for me, but Fred was only 1 point behind

[bonfire]

Hunter
Thompson
McCain

In that order.

[Huck]

McCain 60, Hunter 49, Thompson 48

Disagreed with McCain on Immigration and Education.

Disagreed with Hunter on Immigration, Energy, and Marriage

Disagreed with Thompson on Immigration, Energy, Marriage, Education

So sayeth the quiz.

[A1 Southern Man]

Fred Thompson. Guess I can keep the hats, shirts, pins, buttons and stickers.

[arderkrag]

This test is exceedingly faulty (I came up 82% toward McCain, who is as moderate as the day is long.). I support the Political Compass, which has done a graph of the candiates based on their positions. It’s much more accurate and trustworthy. You can take the test at the website and compare your score to theirs.

[counterpunch]

It picked McCain for me, with Fred a close second.
It doesn’t seem very well developed.

It put every candidate in the “disagree” column for Iraq and immigration. The abortion question was too black and white. My opinion on abortion is identical to Fred Thompson’s, and yet it put Fred’s abortion position in the “disagree” column. At least it put *uckabee at the very bottom of all the Republicans.

[weegee]

Duncan Hunter 26
John McCain 24
Fred Thompson 23

[BelegStrongbow]

Thompson 70 Dis=Immigration, energy
Hunter 65
McCain 63
Huckabee 50

Seems pretty fair assessment to me. Anything that shows me adamantly opposed to the side of the street upon which Obama or Clinton walk is probably rightly ordered. And this showed me giving them each a 7 out of 100. That would be agreeing on the death penalty. I think they’re pandering on that one, though, so it’s really zero. And that would be exactly correct.

[SaxxonWoods]

McCain 49
Fred 47
Hunter 47

Hard to understand, as I disagree with McCain on immigration, and marked it as very important.

[reg45]

Thompson - 58
Hunter - 55
McCain - 53

No 'Rat got higher than a 3 - except for Richardson (13) who has dropped out.

[dread78645]

About what I've already decided.

Paul 51
FRed 47
McCain 43
Hunter 42
...

How did McInsane get in there ???

[kellynla]

“Fred Thompson. Guess I can keep the hats, shirts, pins, buttons and stickers.”

LOL...guess you can...

[kellynla]

“How did McInsane get in there ???”

yeaaaaaaaaa...I couldn’t figure that one out either;
since like the rest of you; McCain doesn’t agree with us on immigration....

[Azzurri]

That was a horrible quiz, they didn’t match the candidates well to their own real positions.

[BigEdLB]

	Fred Thompson Score: 57	Agree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty Environment Education	Disagree Abortion Energy Gun Control

Fred 1st Duncan Hunter 2nd Mitt Romney 3rd

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Below are the candidates ranked by how much you agree with their stances.

	Duncan Hunter Score: 45	Agree Iraq Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Gun Control Education	Disagree Immigration Stem-Cell Research Energy Death Penalty Environment
	John McCain Score: 44	Agree Iraq Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Gun Control	Disagree Immigration Stem-Cell Research Marriage Death Penalty Environment Education
	Fred Thompson Score: 44	Agree Iraq Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Gun Control	Disagree Immigration Stem-Cell Research Energy Death Penalty Environment Education
	Ron Paul Score: 36	Agree Taxes Health Care Abortion Energy Death Penalty Gun Control	Disagree Iraq Immigration Stem-Cell Research Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Environment Education
	Mitt Romney Score: 31	Agree Iraq Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Line-Item Veto Marriage	Disagree Immigration Social Security Energy Death Penalty Gun Control Environment Education
	Mike Huckabee Score: 30	Agree Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Gun Control	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Energy Death Penalty Environment Education
	Rudy Giuliani Score: 29	Agree Iraq Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security	Disagree Immigration Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty Gun Control Environment Education
	Bill Richardson Score: 13	Agree Stem-Cell Research Line-Item Veto Gun Control Environment Education	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Energy Marriage Death Penalty
	Mike Gravel Score: 11	Agree Stem-Cell Research Death Penalty Environment	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Gun Control Education
	Chris Dodd Score: 11	Agree Stem-Cell Research Death Penalty Environment	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Gun Control Education
	Dennis Kucinich Score: 11	Agree Stem-Cell Research Death Penalty Environment	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Gun Control Education
	Hillary Clinton Score: 5	Agree Stem-Cell Research Environment Education	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty Gun Control
	Barack Obama Score: 4	Agree Stem-Cell Research Environment	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty Gun Control Education
	Joe Biden Score: 4	Agree Stem-Cell Research Environment	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty Gun Control Education
	John Edwards Score: 2	Agree Stem-Cell Research Education	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty Gun Control Environment

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Hard to understand, as I disagree with McCain on immigration, and marked it as very important

It's because you've got your jack-boots strung too tight.

[pepperhead]

Hunter 53 - Yes
Thompson 50 - Yes
Romney 50 - Yuck! Never will I vote for that chameleon.
Huckabee 44
McCain 41
Paul 32
Giuliani 30 - Is it any surprise he is at the bottom?

I think it would have been interesting if that site would have included some other third party choices.

[Windflier]

1.McCain = 74
2.Thompson = 60

WTF over?

I think this poll is skewed in some way to bump McCain. There is no way in hell that he agrees with my red meat conservative positions, the strongest of which is my position on illegal immigration.

I want the fence built, no gov’t assistance to illegals, prosecution of employers who hire them, no automatic birth rights, deportations, etc. McCain sponsored the Amnesty Bill, for Pete’s sake! No possible way is he my man.

At least Fred was my number two....sheesh