thisearthlyride | Who to Pick?

A friend was asking about presidential candidates and I thought I'd share a handy-dandy link. Pick Your Candidate is a great site. You take a short quiz on the issues and rate their importance to you. The quiz then lists the candidates in the order by which they most closely matched the criteria you just entered.

Pick Your Candidate - Your Results

To the right of each candidate is a list of the items which you and the candidate explicitly disagreed upon and a list of the items that you expressed support or approval of but for which the candidate's position is unknown/other. Disagreements are not listed for candidates who have negative scores.

83 Kucinich
Disagreements: (1) No Child Left Behind
Unknowns/Other: (0)

66 Gravel
Disagreements: (0)
Unknowns/Other: (6) ANWR Drilling, Assault Weapons Ban, Guns- Background Checks, Wiretapping, Net Neutrality, Minimum Wage Increase

44 Obama
Disagreements: (4) Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Same-Sex Marriage
Unknowns/Other: (4) No Child Left Behind, Kyoto, Torture, Iran- Military Action

43 Clinton
Disagreements: (7) Death Penalty, No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage
Unknowns/Other: (0)

40 Edwards
Disagreements: (6) Death Penalty, No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage
Unknowns/Other: (2) Kyoto, Border Fence

38 Dodd
Disagreements: (6) Death Penalty, No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action
Unknowns/Other: (3) Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Civil Union, Universal Healthcare

36 Richardson
Disagreements: (6) Death Penalty, Assault Weapons Ban, Patriot Act, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage
Unknowns/Other: (3) No Child Left Behind, ANWR Drilling, Iraq War

33 Biden
Disagreements: (6) Death Penalty, No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Same-Sex Marriage
Unknowns/Other: (4) Kyoto, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Civil Union, Universal Healthcare

6 Paul
Disagreements: (12) Abortion Rights, Embryonic Stem Cells, ANWR Drilling, Kyoto, Assault Weapons Ban, Guns - Background Checks, Citizenship Path for Illegals, Border Fence, Net Neutrality, Minimum Wage Increase, Same-Sex Marriage, Universal Healthcare
Unknowns/Other: (1) Same-Sex Civil Union

-29 T. Thompson 10/14
-32 McCain 16/1
-38 Giuliani 15/3
-40 Brownback 17/3
-47 Cox 12/9
-48 Huckabee 17/5
-70 Tancredo 21/2
-75 Romney 21/3
-76 Hunter 22/3

Now tell me how I could in good conscience vote for anyone other than Kucinich? Obama and Clinton are the media darlings, but Obama is 39 points behind Kucinich in my results. Clinton is 40 points behind. That's a pretty large margin- especially when we're talking about *known* disagreements on issues like same sex marriage, the Patriot Act, military action in Iran, the death penalty, and No Child Left Behind.

I know some people who were surprised by the results they got when they took this test. If any of you are inclined to take a few moments to do it, I'd be interested to hear your results and reactions, as well.