wildman said:
Brownback and Kucinich are at a dead heat for me... Go figure.
Wow! What a bizarre combination. I'd never expect to hear both of those candidates in the same sentence.
Mine:
Biden: 26
Clinton: 21
Obama: 21
Kucinich: 19
Giuliani: 19
Surprising results (especially Kucinich), but the disaster in Iraq and how it affects so many other things (government spending, for example) make this race non-typical. Plus, the survey doesn't give choices that match my opinions particularly well - I just had to pick the best answer available.
The truth of the matter is that I don't agree with any of the Iraq positions listed, but the one I chose most closely aligned with Biden's positions. (Iraq is a lost cause and a non-issue in itself, but how we handle things in the Middle East post-Iraq is a huge issue facing the US.)
I'd normally be much more supportive of making tax cuts permanent, but this is sure a bad time to make tax cuts a priority when we're shelling out so much money for Iraq. That skews my ratings towards the Democrats. Changing that single answer would propel Giuliani to the top.
I'm not on the same page with Republicans on health care, either. While I may not agree completely with Dems on health care, it is a fact that we're paying for the medically uninsured one way or the other already. The more important issue is whether we're going to get the value we're paying for in the future. As medical costs skyrocket, it's naive to think insurance companies won't go after every loophole they can find to avoid paying out for claims. Something will have to give one way or the other.
The way the choices are worded make a big difference. On
On the Issues website, my results were Biden, Richardson, McCain, and Clinton (seeing as how my top two candidates, Tommy Thompson and Jim Gilmore, both dropped out of the race).
I retook the test and gave the most retarded answers possible. Top 5 are:
