Can't figure out who to vote for? Never fear: Here's another one of those political quizes that compares you with the candidates on several current issues. The pencil icon in the accompanying picture indicates where I stand and the circle around it indicates the standard deviation for the test. There's only one candidate in the race who falls within a standard deviation of me... no surprise.
Of course, the quiz isn't perfect; it doesn't weigh answers depending on how important the issue is to you, for instance.
Take the quiz at Electoral Compass USA. The quiz is apparently a research project put up by a Dutch group.
My pencil is where Obama's hat would be if he had one on. As the title of your post suggests, this graph is designed only to span the current US political landscape. The one we tackled earlier is a more comprehensive political compass. For instance, none of the democrats on this chart would be on the economic left in a historical sense. Would they have impressed a former US presidential candidate, Eugene V. Debs?
Posted by: Namit | January 11, 2008 at 03:50 PM
This was so much fun ! My pencil is on Obama's chin and furthest from Fred Thompson.Thanks for the post.
Posted by: Shreyasi | January 13, 2008 at 11:02 PM