Candidate match game

rodrick_98 · Dec 3, 2007

i know there was something similar to this posted, but i couldn't find it. maybe it was in one of the many republican primary threads, but whatever. this one is a bit more detailed, and after you finish it has a slider where you can adjust the importance of certain issues. i was somewhat surprised by my results. they're listed below.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/candidate-match-game.htm

Polls suggest Americans are concerned primarily with a few key issues in the 2008 presidential election. USA TODAY researched candidate positions on those top issues — Iraq, immigration and health care — as well as a few others that may influence the election. We then came up with 11 multiple-choice questions that would help differentiate the candidates and their stances.

As you answer the questions, you can roll over each color bar below the candidates' heads to find background on their positions. Your answers are matched with the positions of the presidential hopefuls to reveal the candidate (or candidates) closest to your views. The sliders on the right allow you to assign relative weights to match the importance that you place on each issue.
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i support ron paul, but in the previous candidate match test i took it said i more closely matched fred thompson. this round both from the test, and after i adjusted the sliders, my closest match was huckabee. followed by paul.

who did you get?

rhester · Dec 4, 2007

Ron Paul first
Fred Thompson second

I don't know who Fred Thompson is. (I don't pay attention)

Used the slider and it didn't change my top two

JuanValdez · Dec 5, 2007

That was one of the better candidate-match engines I've seen so far on as polish. They still completely miss my criteria for candidates. They matched me with Romney, Biden and Obama. I'll probably be going Obama.

I notice they had no questions about abortion. There might be a high correlation between opinions on abortion and gay marriage, and that's why. But, I think people are selling the power of the abortion issue way too short and will end up surprised.

B-Bob · Dec 5, 2007

I agree that's one of the better match games, but: (1) agree with JV about the questions not being comprehensive enough, and (2) some of the questions had no good answers. (e.g. I don't give a flying preference for whether someone has been a governor versus a senator or business owner... I just want to read what the person has done and what they want to do...)

Me:
1. Obama
2. McCain
3. Biden

That's very accurate for me...

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