What is the fastest way to cut through all the rhetoric and get a simple answer to the question: Which candidate should I support for president?
Let’s face it, we are – on the whole – a sound-bite culture, with information ADD.
We want to know who to vote for without taking countless hours of time to do the research. It’s too much like work, unpaid work.
Last month, I gave you the link to the Candidate Match Game, a simple quiz that matches your answers up with the presidential contenders. (Here is my post about it.)
This month, I bring you a new quiz, Match-O-Matic, from ABC News.
I liked this one better, only because my results were more accurate.
- Fred Thompson
- Ron Paul
- John McCain
My results from the Candidate Match Game were Thompson, McCain, and Hillary Clinton.
The one benefit of the Candidate Match Game is that it allows you to weight the issues.
But, hey, you can always take both.
Be sure to share your results in the comments.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Do I have to answer? Because my answers should look more like yours. But what do I get? Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee? I think the number of times I thought, “I’m not sure I agree with any of the listed options” might have skewed something. And the fact that I like governors and mayors. But that isn’t exactly anything I base my vote on. If Romney and Thompson were equal, I’d take the governor over the senator. But they aren’t. So it is a silly question.
OK, the second time it said, Thompson, Paul and Brownback. But that is because I lied and said I liked senators.
Now I don’t have to do any more research. Romney for president! Because ABC says so. : )
January 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
There is one more way to know who to vote for without doing the research: Just do what I say!
Vote Fred Thompson!
I agree that question was silly, although, I am more inclined to say “stupid.”
I also agree that the listed options didn’t always cover my answer.
Dana, you don’t strike me as the type to have “information ADD.” Your posts are much more researched and thought-out than mine are. How on earth do you manage that? I would assume your children must be better behaved than mine, but I saw that picture of your mud-covered son.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I was sort of debating between Hunter and Thompson…I was just hoping that at least one of them might still be in the race in May when it reaches the critical state of NE…that they’d be holding out for our massive amount of delegates. Especially since all the polls I know of out here lean toward Thompson.
HHS praised my kids today, so they must be good. : ) They can be good…but they can be, well, not so good. Right now, they are stir crazy. Someone has been sick everyday for a few weeks, now, hampering our ability to go outside. So they need to go out and burn off some energy.
(Oh, and HHS called because I had agreed to participate in some study. But all those alerts do have an effect on you. Even though I was expecting the call, when the worker identified herself as with HHS, I couldn’t help a twinge of panic!)
January 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
One of the things that I came across when going thru the “carnival” is this:
http://politicalcompass.org/index
The Political Compass, which is more of a world-wide political compass than anything else. There’s some interesting quizzes there. I’m happily “left” of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Lama, and every major political candidate in the USA this cycle.
The ABC Match-O-Matic sez for me (basically the same as before):
1. Dennis Kucinich
2. Mike Gravel
3. Bill Richardson (who dropped out!)
I guess that means I won’t be voting…oh wait…yea…I forgot about the Clinton juggernaut…rollin’ to victory in ‘08!
What’s kinda dumb is the main graphic that I saw on that ABC page…what are McCain and Edwards doing on the White House roof??
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Thanks for the link!