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isidewith.com

This is a cool quiz that lets you see who supports the things you support.  In addition to yes and no questions, it's got the "another answer" option which allows you to really refine your answers.  Not surprising to me, I'm 99% in agreement with the green party candidate, 82% with Obama... 4% with Mitt Romney.
Jill Stein....78%

Obama---77%

But overall Dems over Green 87% vs. 74%.

Probably the immigration stuff is where we differ.  I'm not a fan of taking tax payer money and having it benefit people that are not paying in.  That's the type of stuff that makes thing unaffordable as we are constantly spending more money than what the budget allows for.
Jill Stein 88%
President Obama 85%
I think Rmoney was like 6% or something.

Dems over Green like FB, too. But I'd never join their shit parade. Fuck parties.
Tripper
http://www.isidewith.com/results/56692156
Hookbender — Aug 23, 2012http://www.isidewith.com/results/56692156


Very interesting...
Tripper
Why?
Because you're so eager to vote against your beliefs and interest based on a lot of imagination and conflation about things that the guy who supports most of the same ideas you possess.

Makes our case that your anger about President Obama has more to do with some personal slight or personal characteristic about him than any sort of real policy disagreement.

:)
Tripper
Then you don't understand at all where I'm coming from. Just because I agree with him concerning some statements he's made doesn't at all excuse lying. I can agree with something he says he's gonna do and like it, if he doesn't do it it's still a lie.
This explains why I don't banter with you dipsticks.  ;)  No surprise that it's mostly Libertarian, this was my political compass from before:





http://www.isidewith.com/results/192262277

Guess I shouldn't be too surprised here... You guys must all be tree hugging hippies... :)
You're 3/4 Democrat and 3/4 Republican. That's 6/4!

I wonder if they've updated this quiz over time to capture all of Romney's new positions.
This site saw over 5.5 MILLION people and, out of all 50 states, the leader was either Obama or Johnson (at one point, after about 2.5 million people had taken the test, Johnson led in more states than Obama).

The point I'm trying to make is that Romney was never above Johnson in any state, yet HE was the one the media decided will run against Obama.  I find that interesting (and annoying).
Interesting Craig... those two sites can report the same thing... or do they?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart.php?showform=&Mitt+Romney=7.0%2C6.5&Barack+Obama=6.0%2C6.0&Virgil+Goode=9.0%2C9.0&Gary+Johnson=9.5%2C0.0&Rocky+Anderson=4.5%2C-2.0&Jill+Stein=-3.0%2C-3.0&Stewart+Alexander=-5.0%2C-2.0&You=7.50,-5.28

Isidewith, for me, has:

Ron Paul 94%
Gary Johnson 91%
Mitt Romney 78%
Virgil Goode 60%
Barack Obama 18%
Rocky Anderson 13%  <-----
Jill Stein 11%

No idea who that guy is, but there's a pretty big divergence there.

Also interesting that it says I side with Ron Paul... who wasn't on the ballot.

On the compass, I'm practically equidistant from Romney and Obama yet Isidewith has me much more on Romney's side.

Interesting, more thought required... not sure what I make of it. Perhaps both are just silly diversions? nah! heh. ;)
I really liked how thorough the answers were on the isidewith website.  Definitely not just your typical "yes or no" replies!
I liked that if you didn't agree with one of the two choices, you could go deeper and make a more nuanced response.  I still think there's room for a new party out there.