EclectEcon

Which candidate has policy positions and views which are closest to yours? To see, click here, via Phil Miller. Of course there is an underlying premise to this survey/questionnaire that people are actually able to identify what a candidate's position is on each of the questions.

As usual, I did the questionnaire twice, to test for robustness. Both times, I ended up with Giuliani #1, and McCain #2. Also both times I ended up with Obama ahead of Clinton, but much lower than the leading Republicans.

I did not like all the questions (especially the one about the environment), but I guess it was reasonably informative anyway.

Ms. Eclectic also did the test/survey. There was almost a perfect negative correlation between our choices! Makes you wonder how we lasted this long, doesn't it? Maybe it's true that "opposites attract." [Update: But maybe not. See this]

My favourite drug dealer, JB, sent me a link to this quiz, which gave similar results — mostly Republicans ahead of the Democrats, McKeyneMcCain near the top, but in this one Thompson was ahead of him. The second time I took it, Giuliani moved ahead of both of them. One major reason for the differences might be that in the first one I could attach weights to some of the issues.