All you have to do is answer 25 questions.
Admittedly the site could be improved, since it lists no LP candidates except Kent McManigal (who’s no longer even running except as a write-in candidate) and references a lot of organizations that I’ve never even heard of (but they expect me to say whether I agree with their platform).
It would be a lot more accurate if, for example, you were given a choice to state you believe the war should be ended immediately. As it is, the only options are setting or not setting a deadline for returning the troops, or neither (and that could mean anything).
That being said, the results still appear to be fairly accurate, since Ron Paul came up as #1, followed by a Democrat (I used to be a Democrat, so that sounds about right even though I’m not familiar with the candidate). Kent McManigal tied for #3, while the vast majority of Republicans are at the end. Honestly, I’m not familiar with all the candidates listed, and the lack of specificity with regard to issues such as war could have thrown it way off. I suspect that, with more specific answer options, the results may be quite different.
It is very strange that Kent McManigal and two Democrats tied for third place, though. LOL
The following is my full ideal candidate list according to that site, based on percentage of agreement and level of importance on the issues:
Ron Paul 72%
Dennis Kucinich 62%
Al Gore 60%
Barack Obama 60%
Kent McManigal 60%
Christopher Dodd 58%
Wesley Clark 53%
Mike Gavel 52%
John Edwards 51%
John McCain 49%
Hillary Clinton 47%
Bill Richardson 47%
Joseph Biden 47%
Alan Auguston 46%
Newt Gingrich 45%
Tommy Thompson 43%
Tom Tancredo 37%
Chuck Hagel 36%
Fred Thompson 36%
Sam Brownback 36%
Mitt Romney 36%
Duncan Hunter 34%
Rudolph Giuliani 34%
Jim Gilmore 29%
Elaine Brown 20%
Mike Huckabee 18%
I’d be interested to know how accurate others believe their results to be, and it might be interesting to take them up on their offer to provide free code for our own candidate survey. I bet it would be a lot more accurate, at any rate.
Hat tip Kent McManigal
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Mike Seebeck
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Jim Davidson
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Stuart Richards
Todd Andrew Barnett
Kent McManigal 92%
When I take the survey, I only match up with myself 90%, probably because it doesn’t allow for some answers I would choose if given the choice.
Kent: That’s kinda funny, I get you 96% (followed by Paul at 90%), but I agree that they leave out a lot of answers that I’d like to give.
Funnily enough, Elaine Brown is my bottom candidate at 20%. Why they included her I have no idea. EDIT: Apparently there’s a Greenie called Elaine Brown.
I get Ron Paul and Kent McManigal at 81 and 73 percent, respectively. I just wish you could weight the issues more heavily. Allowing for only 2 levels of interest in an issue is VERY far removed from reality.
My results: I can’t tell you how many times I had to choose “neither”, and list the importance as “high”, though. So– who the devil knows where they put it.
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Kent McManigal (90%)
3. Ron Paul (71%)
4. Dennis Kucinich (59%)
5. John McCain (59%)
6. Chuck Hagel (58%)
7. Barack Obama (52%)
8. Newt Gingrich (52%)
9. Bill Richardson (51%)
10. Christopher Dodd (51%)
11. Hillary Clinton (50%)
12. Joseph Biden (50%)
13. Mitt Romney (48%)
14. Wesley Clark (48%)
15. Al Gore (47%)
16. Sam Brownback (47%)
17. Tom Tancredo (45%)
18. Rudolph Giuliani (43%)
19. Fred Thompson (42%)
20. Alan Augustson (41%)
21. John Edwards (41%)
22. Mike Gravel (41%)
23. Duncan Hunter (37%)
24. Jim Gilmore (32%)
25. Tommy Thompson (31%)
26. Mike Huckabee (27%)
27. Elaine Brown (16%)
I actually had Kent as my #2 after the theoretical candidate of my choosing, namely me. I will say the questions were fair but the choices sucked. I probably chose Neither for a third of them and would have more except one of the other answers was close. I would need some serious caveats to choose those answers in a scientific survey, though. Anyway. Ron Paul was my #3. Since he’s still running I’ll go with him.
A lot of the questions just didn’t offer an answer I could give, but FWIW Kent came in tops (after the “theoretical candidate”) at 71%, followed by Dennis Kucinich (63%) and Ron Paul (62%).
Just for Dondero’s gratification, Rudy Giuliani came in below EVERY Democrat on my list.
“Thomas L. Knapp Says:
June 14th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
A lot of the questions just didn’t offer an answer I could give, but FWIW Kent came in tops (after the “theoretical candidate”) at 71%, followed by Dennis Kucinich (63%) and Ron Paul (62%).
Just for Dondero’s gratification, Rudy Giuliani came in below EVERY Democrat on my list.”
When I took this test after “theoretical candidate” I had Kent at 95% and Ron Paul at 90%. Of course the wording of the questions, which questions were asked and which were not asked, the anwser selections, and the weight given to each questions effect the results, so it is not like the test is perfect.
Rudy Giuliani came in at 30% for me. The two lowest for me were Mike Huckabee and Elaine Brown at 25% each.