Take the test - who's your ideal candidate in '08?

With which US Presidential candidate do you agree most closely?

Exciting news - you are only minutes away from finding out.

All you have to do is click on the candidate calculator and take the short and simple test.

Me? I'm an 81.25 per cent match with John McCain. And an 70.80 per cent match with Rudy Giuliani.

But pure policy isn't everything. As I explain in my 10 reasons why it has to be Giuliani not McCain.

Comments

[Mark]

Hey Danny

Great link - i am 90.5% alligned to Obama which is kida cool for a modernising Tory methinks.

Mark

[tired and emotional]

If you think that Mark at 11.41 you don't think much at all.

I am 91% aligned with Tom Tancredo btw, if I knew who that was I would say something about it.

[Don]

I see a few flaws in the calculator. Fred Thompson, my candidate, is not in your database. Stem cell research is two issues -- embryonic and adult. You would get very different results on that subject, if you posed it correctly. It let me take the survey twice. The second time I just selected the most left-wing issues and got Gravel. The percentages of candidate matches is meaningless if we can use the calculator as many times as we want.

If someone actually needs this calculator to determine who his candidate is ... Well, let's hope we're more informed than that would suggest.

[michael]

Hey i match 100% with Mitt romney - hows that!

I ticked agree or disagree with most issues!

Bring it on Mitt - man!

[ali]

I have a 91% rating with mike gravel. I feel like such a loser I even retook the test again and i had an even higher rating with yes, you guessed it mike gravel.

[Matthew Wentworth]

Interesting, looks like I would be voting for Mike Gravel if I was American! My top Republican candidate by a long way is Ron Paul, both on this calculator and in reality. Ron Paul vs Mike Gravel - that would be a presidential election worth having, rather than the style over substance battle of the "moderates" we are likely to get.

[Murad Ahmed]

Is that as bad as my 91% match with Dennis Kucinich? I hang my head in shame

[David, Cambridge]

I hit the the high 90s with Kucinich, and that was after deliberately (but honestly) skewing myself to the right/centre in some of the answers. I somehow think I wouldn't last a minute in America today...

[Osei K.]

Help - I'm a 75.71% match for John Edwards. What's more disconcerting is that my next top match at 70% is Hilary Clinton - HILARY???? AAAAHHH!!!

[Edward]

85-86% Hillary. In the 70s for Edwards, Obama and Kucinich.
That's after voting AGAINST abortion and gay marriages.
How conservative do you have to be to be a Republican?

[Frankie]

Who the heck is Mike Gravel? 86% match, followed by T.Tompson and Ron Paul. A shame this quiz leaves off my most important issue: shutting down about half of the federal government and shifting those powers back to the states. Of course, there's only one candidate who supports that position...

[ric]

Looks like my top candidate is Mike Gravel (84.17%) followed by Kucinich, both considered by political compass, www.politicalcompass.org, as mainstream social democrats within the political landscape of Europe. My top republican candidate is Thompson and not Giuliani as I previously thought.

[Frankie]

Who the h3ck is Mike Gravel? Supposedly 86% match for me, followed by Tommy Thompson and Ron Paul. Of course, the quiz leaves out my #1 issue: slashing the federal government's size by half and returning those powers rightfully to the States. Only one candidate supports that particular position.

[Galen, Idaho]

I just scored 100% with Mitt Romney, too! Cool, because that's who I'm supporting. Nice to know I'm consistent with his views (or vice versa, as the case may be).

[Roger Young]

I'm an American, residing in San Francisco, and all I have to say is,

"My God you Brits are so much better informed that we here stateside. Most don't even know who Ron Paul or Mike Gravel IS, much less share their views!"

We do know one thing, tho. We were lied to, cheated and mis-treated about the war and other issues. We HOPE the electoral system still works....

[John]

I had a 90% match with Gravel also, to my surprise. I thought it would be Ron Paul. Oh well. I'll take either one of them over whoever it is we're going to end up with.

[Tina Rhea]

I scored 90% with Kucinich, for whom I voted in the primary last time. A lot of people agree with him on the issues but don't know it, because the Big Dogs With Money bark too loudly for anyone else to be heard, and the mass media covers the whole thing as a horse race and almost never mentions what candidates think or believe. Elections are to a large extent a foregone conclusion.

[Francis]

This was good fun. I was impressed by my 46% for Gravel and 23% for Kucinich but i see others have beaten me comprehensively. I did manage to have none over 50% and only those two over 5% so apart from them i disagree with everyone almost completely. Also i had only 0.3% with my preferred candidate, McCain (not because im ignorant of his policies though)

[shorehamview]

I'm matched 84.41% with Joe Bidet. Why didn't the bloke change his surname? Nobody's going to vote for a fella named after something you wash your wossnames in.
If I was American, instead of from The People's Republic Of South Yorkshire I'd be voting for that Barracks O'Barmy, he must be Irish with a name like that.

[Matt Myers]

I come out 90% for Ron Paul

Which just goes to prove that my theories about how society should be run do not fit anywhere into the political spectrum of the UK.

!!!!!SOUND MONEY!!!!!
Free market banking
Free market capitalism with real money
ABOLISH THE BANK OF ENGLAND
Self determination
Self responsibility
KILL THE NANNY STATE
Low taxation
NO social security for anyone except the genuinely sick and ill
A much tougher line on illegal immigration
A non interventionist foreign policy
No more undeclared illegal wars.

I think I need to emigrate

[Michelline]

91% with Dennis Kucinich. I had to look him up and I'm an American! (No throwing things...). However, I plan to vote for Hilary in the primaries and then whoever takes the Democratic nomination for the real election. Which doesn't mean anything anyway, as the Electoral College takes away any rights I might have as a voter.

[MM]

I got Mitt Romney, followed by Rudy Guiliani and Fred Thompson.
I'm hoping for Fred or Rudy to win the Republican nomination, but obviously I would have no problem with Romney getting it. :)

[David, Boston, MA]

I got 100% Giuliani. That and England beating Israel I've never been happier!

[Doug]

Well, that was fun. And a bit eye-opening. I matched Gravel at 95%, someone to whom I hadn't really paid that much attention. Maybe I should check him out. Or maybe not, I don't think he has a chance at being the candidate, but still, I'm apparently pretty much on the same page. Thanks for the link.

[Brien Comerford]

I have much in common with Kucinich. The big difference is that he is a thin vegetarian and I am very hefty vegetarian. He's for abortion and I'm against it!

[Gracie Dijkhuyzen]

I will vote for Hillary Clinton,a lady president who is brainy and lots of better sharping guts!

[vwcat]

Gravel???? can't stand him. but, I match with him. My others in the top 4 are Kuncinich, Biden and Obama.
I am personally an Obama supporter so, he is in my top.
I would have thought, aside from Rupublicans my bottom would have been Hillary would I cannot stand and have nothing in common. well, it's hard to gauge her as she has no stands. She just changes with the wind to hide her more hardline views.

[Arain]

82.35% match for Mike Gravel, who I've never known
about. ye, i am not concerned with him

[Will]

Mitt Romney was my top candidate, which is perfectly fine with me at 86.54%. Fred Thompson at 79.81%, also a candidate I'd support. The rests have too low a % to bother.

[Victoria Story]

I am a Canadian, born and bred who, with the arrival of Ron Paul on the scene of the U.S. presidential elections, much regrets the decision of my American mother to come to this country over 50 years ago. I would love to be in America and help to elect this most wise and principled man to the office of the presidency. He has hundreds more Meetup groups than any candidate of either party and, were his supporters' voluntary donations of time and money taken into account, would probably be leading the field in finances. All Americans who care about freedom and their Constitution should Google Ron Paul and, for the sake of all of us, support his run for the White House.

[Colin Sharpe]

Well I'm 100% aligned with Mike Gravel. Why isn't this candidate getting more press?

[Pjay]

I was surprised to find myself a 97% match for Kucinich--not dismayed just surprised--as I had discounted him and wasn't really familiar with his positions. My next two closest, both at 71% (and I was surprised at how low this was) were Obama and Clinton. Politically I swing quite to the left of center and have receently had some internal battles as to whether I prefer Clinton or Obama. I have considered that this may be a difficult choice for me in January. I do believe this is why a caucus system works better for us here in Iowa. It allows us to consider this small points that may help me clarify this in my own head. I don't have to be sure going into the caucus who I want to vote for, and I can gain insight into all the candidates by discussing issues with others who may also be having trouble deciding.

[Jim at FSU Law]

Woot, 85 percent match with Ron Paul.

Being an anti-war and socially tolerant disqualifies the other republicans.

Being a small government free-marketer disqualifies the entire democratic party.

[Justin]

94.83% match with Fred Thompson. I just donated to him the other day, so I'd say it works.

Tired and emotional is right that there's a problem with the stem cell issue, but he's wrong about what the problem is. The real issue is whether the government should be funding such research. Bush hasn't banned stem cell research in the US--privately funded research is free to occur, but the federal government is prohibited from using tax-payers dollars to do so.

[Micah]

I was 83% matched up with Ron Paul. I knew there was a reason I liked him so much. Go Ron Paul!!!

[J_O'Mahony]

Dennis Kucinich - you what now?

[Dave Hawk]

Top match:

Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) -69.79%

Top Republican match:

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) - 63.54%

Lowest Democratic match:

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D - 41.67%

Lowest match:

Texas Representative Ron Paul (R) - 34.38%

[Wishing we had more than a 2 party system!]

Well, the highest that any candidate got was a measly 11.4%!! with Gravel as #1. They were all close in the top 10 - so am I that messed up?? Sucks to be me.

[nico]

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