Click here to find out who your ideal presidential candidate is.
My top match was Republican candidate and libertarian Ron Paul, which was no surprise.
I had a match of 76% with Tom Tancredo, who I had never heard of. However, my wife told me there was a guy from Colorado running for the Presidency, and it turns out this is him. Neat.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find html for the page, so I will do a crude copy and paste.
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Ron Paul (78%) (Member of libertarian party and Repub. candidate for President)
3. Tom Tancredo (76%)
4. Kent McManigal (75%)
5. Chuck Hagel (75%)
6. John McCain (72%)
7. Mitt Romney (70%)
8. Newt Gingrich (66%)
9. Duncan Hunter (66%)
10. Sam Brownback (65%)
11. Fred Thompson (59%)
12. Rudolph Giuliani (52%)
13. Mike Huckabee (48%)
14. Jim Gilmore (46%)
15. Tommy Thompson (44%)
16. Bill Richardson (44%)
17. Christopher Dodd (38%)
18. Al Gore (35%)
19. John Edwards (34%)
20. Barack Obama (33%)
21. Hillary Clinton (32%)
22. Dennis Kucinich (28%)
23. Joseph Biden (27%)
24. Wesley Clark (25%)
25. Mike Gravel (15%)
26. Elaine Brown (9%)
Note: The hardest question for me was #3, on balancing civil liberties vs. security. I feel that I am somewhere between the libertarians and conservatives on this. I realize the importance of protecting civil liberties, but I may favor some sacrifices. The first time I favored security and Tancredo was my top person. When I switched to civil liberties Paul was on the top.
Hat tip to Neil Simpson.
Update: Supposedly, Tancredo is really tough on immigration, and that is what he is known for here in Colorado, whereas I'm for a more open immigration policy (but still believe people should do it legally.)
Update 2: After you finish filling out the quiz, it takes you to some advertisement page. There should be a link near the top of the page that you can click to skip all that stuff.
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You might want to take a look at Jim Gilmore on the national security - civil liberties balance. He was Governor of VA on 9/11 and chaired the Gilmore Commission. He's since created the National Council on Readiness and Preparedness.
However he's a big civil liberties proponent, and has been praised by a number of Republicans for being strong on national security without wanting to turn the country into a police state.
He's definitely a long shot, but he occurred to me when I saw your post.
I tried to fill this out (expecting that Kucinich would be my ideal candidate), but when I got to the end, I didn't get results, just a rip-off bunch of data-mining to sell me stuff I don't want. And it asked stuff that is no one's business about my race, etc.
Hey Michael,
How dare you accuse me of working for a data mining company and using this blog to promote that?
Wait, uh, nevermind.
When I did it, somewhere near the top there was a "click here" to see the results. It may be browser dependent. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (75%)
3. Barack Obama (71%)
4. Christopher Dodd (70%)
5. Kent McManigal (66%)
6. Hillary Clinton (64%)
7. Joseph Biden (62%)
8. Al Gore (61%)
9. Wesley Clark (58%)
10. Ron Paul (57%)
11. Bill Richardson (52%)
12. John Edwards (47%)
13. Rudolph Giuliani (35%)
14. Mike Gravel (32%)
15. Mitt Romney (32%)
16. Newt Gingrich (32%)
17. John McCain (31%)
18. Chuck Hagel (28%)
19. Elaine Brown (28%)
20. Tommy Thompson (27%)
21. Mike Huckabee (25%)
22. Fred Thompson (22%)
23. Sam Brownback (22%)
24. Tom Tancredo (22%)
25. Jim Gilmore (17%)
26. Duncan Hunter (17%)
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (91%)
3. Barack Obama (77%)
No surprises here.
Yeah, Michael, I think Chance is right. I saw the button at the top that allowed me to bypass the junk.
1. Theoretical Candidate- 100% (obviously)
2. Chuck Hagel- 78% (no way)
3. Newt Gingrich- 77%
4. Tom Tancredo- 73%
5. Mitt Romney- 73%
6. Duncan Hunter- 72%
7. Kent McManigal- 72% (who?)
8. John McCain- 71% (when hell freezes over)
9. Sam Brownback- 69%
10. Fred Thompson- 69%
11. Ron Paul- 61%
12. Rudy Giuliani- 56% (make that zero %)
13. Jim Gilmore- 54% (another ?)
14. Mike Huckabee- 51%
15. Tommy Thompson- 45%
Chuck Hagel, no way.
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