I cannot say I'm surprised that I'm on common ground with the President 87% of the time, and share a lot of views (56%) with Americans and Washingtonians.

Good quiz. Makes you question yourself, and the other options choices are sometimes intriguing.

Nice.

Apparently I should be part of the Green Party, which doesn't surprise me.

I was pleasantly surprised it reminds people that third parties other than Garry Johnson exist. I don't think the fact it gave me the Green Party candidate changes how I'll vote, though. FPTP being FPTP, I can't see voting third party.

Some of the alternate stances were kind of confusing, though. Sometimes, I couldn't tell how to go when one of the stances was "Very yes."

For example, in the marijuana legalization question, one of the alternate stances was "Legalize, tax and regulate." I wasn't really aware there was anyone seriously proposing we just legalize marijuana and have it circulate with no government involvement whatsoever. Those things usually are a consequence of being legal.

Did someone post this on mefi once? I feel like I've done it before. Anyway, Jill Stein and Barack Obama, in that order. I do like the format of the questionnaire.

94% Gary Johnson Libertarian on healthcare, science, economic, environmental, foreign policy, and social issues
78% Mitt Romney Republican on environmental, immigration, and economic issues
74% Virgil Goode Constitution on environmental, economic, immigration, and foreign policy issues
44% Barack Obama Democrat on science, environmental, foreign policy, and social issues
47% Washington Voters on healthcare, foreign policy, economic, and social issues.
53% American Voters on healthcare, immigration, science, economic, and foreign policy issues.

... and yes, I checked that I support legal abortion, legal gay marriage, and legal marijuana. I suspect that my strong opposition to Obamacare and strong support of a total overhaul on Medicare were the greatest determining factors for these results.

I've done this before - although they've modernized the interface - and yet again I come up aligned to a kind of scary degree with Jill Stein. I say scary because, hey! I'm not used to having a politician agree with any of my views. I just wrote a small screed on facebook about this quiz - the gist of it is this: I am SO FUCKING TIRED of voting for candidates for whom I feel, at best, a lukewarm degree of "OK he might be slightly better than the other guy." I am so fucking sick of the two party system. I think that our low numbers of voter turnout are because of our antiquated, ridiculous and jesus just wrong two party system. I hate it. Just once on my life, I would like the chance to vote for somebody who honestly represents my views. But instead I go on voting for the lesser of two evils, the slightly less corporatist person - and here let me remind you that Obama is in many ways to the RIGHT OF FUCKING NIXON - and I hope that somehow this will stave off inevitable disaster for just a little longer.

Batman. Always with Batman.

It would be nice if the US had a government that allowed third parties to be anything but spoilers but unless there's a new constitution, that's now going to happen so we're stuck voting for one of the big two.

90% Jill Stein (healthcare, science, domestic policy, social, foreign policy, environmental, immigration, and economic issues)
80% Barack Obama (social, science, environmental, foreign policy, and economic issues)
75% Gary Johnson (domestic policy, science, and social issues)
25% Mitt Romney (no major issues) heh

Interestingly, I took a look at the source for the results page, and they're hiding results for two other parties. From the page source...
62% Anderson - Justice Party (healthcare, social, and economic issues)
6% Goode - Constitution Party (no major issues)

So, for me, only the Constitution Party candidate scores lower than Romney. Surprisingly, my preferences align with 62% of my fellow Hoosiers. That seems at-odds with the Tea-Party fever that is sweeping the state.

"unless there's a new constitution" - Much more could be achieved if the US had a strong centrist party and two or more outliers. We constantly read the claim that other countries have a workable healthcare bureaucracy, so it should work in the US as well. However, those countries are not saddled with our Constitution that makes such social programs not only near impossible to implement but unstable to maintain once built. The mess that is either Medicare or the Veterans Administration is the inevitable result.

As is, we have a weak national government on domestic issues (as intended by the Constitution drafters) that the general public views as far more powerful than it can possibly achieve by its own mandate.

I suspect that my strong opposition to Obamacare and strong support of a total overhaul on Medicare were the greatest determining factors for these results.

The Obamacare question was strange. Is your opposition to Obamacare coming from the left or the right? If you don't support Obamacare and would rather have a true universal single-payer system, the quiz wants you to pick one of the "Yes" choices.

mullacc- that is why they have the "choose another stance" options

I got 94% Obama and 92% Stein, which seems right though I thought those might be reversed.

It picked the right guy for me.

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Happy with my results too. 2% difference between Obama and Jill Stein, happy with the platform of either, but I have to live in this country after the election and I want my preference to matter.

Plus, Barry is my man.

Happy with my results too. 2% difference between Obama and Jill Stein, happy with the platform of either, but I have to live in this country after the election and I want my preference to matter.

Plus, Barry is my man.