Somebody was bound to come up with a mechanism of choosing a presidential candidate for people who are too stoopid to understand the issues or too disengaged to learn about the candidates but who still, for some reason, feel compelled to vote. Oh, and to make it really simple for those MySpace fools, it’s Web-based, too, as a social media tool should be.
It’s called Glass Booth, and it’s really simple. Place your finger on the screen and follow the words closely. Glass Booth provides a series of issues. It gives you 20 points. You assign points to the issues depending on how important you think they are, keeping in mind you only have 20 points to spread over 14 issues. Then you take a little quiz on your orientation on a number of issues from gay rights to abortion to funding the war in Iraq, complete with links to (of course) Wikipedia, in case you forget what the Second Amendment is about.
I suspected who would be the candidate whose views most closely matched mine, and I was right. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and I share 89 percent of the same positions on the issues. If only he hadn’t seen that UFO …. It was close, though. I share 83 percent with Mike Gravel and 75 percent with John Edwards. What a relief — Obama and Hillary were nowhere in sight.
Check it out for yourself and let the Internets decide who you should vote for. It’s easy, it takes just a couple of minutes and it’s painless. Best of all, it takes almost zero cogitation. Really.
- Topic: News & Comment
- Topics: Campaign 2008, Congress, Elections
Wow, I was 90% aligned with Dennis Kucinich, 86% with Mike Gravel, and 84% with Bill Richardson. And yet I don’t think I would vote for any of those guys, or particularly like them.
Trish, most progressives find that their views align most closely with those of Dennis Kucinich.He has not been anointed as a “star” by the media, however, and is marginalized and made out to be a gadfly and a buffoon. The incessant focus on the “front runners” by the media enforces the perception in the mind of the voters that Kucinich is a jerk, or a nutcase. We progressives, in our hearts, know better. We are aligned intellectually and morally with him. To be true to what we say we espouse, we HAVE to vote for him. Don’t let the media poison your perceptions. If we think he can’t be elected, and don’t vote for him because of that, then he WON’T be elected, and we lose. Vote your conscience.
PEACE.
Trish: Don’t it suck to be progressive politically, but know in the end you will have to do the Democratic thing and anoint Hillary? I can’t vote in the primary (not that it would count if I did), but if I could, I’d vote for Kucinich for, if nothing else, his introduction of an impeachment resolution against Dick Cheney. Go get ‘em, Denny!
Me, 98% Kucinich, 92% Richardson and 91% Gravel.