Selecting a candidate based on issues ONLY

by Corax

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Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 at 5:30:42pm PST

I found this interesting link today to a script that matches your views on the issues with the stands of all candidates (including Bush).

http://news.mpr.org/collections/special/2004/campaign/selectacandidate/selectapres.shtml

Fill out the form and it gives you a % of how well the candidates line up with the issues you think are important. Takes less than 5 minutes.

FWIW, here's how the candidates matched up with me:
Dean: 81%
Kucinich: 72
Lieberman: 63
Kerry: 63
Sharpton: 54
Edwards: 54
Clark: 27
Bush: 0

The script also shows you a table of bullets for each candidate showing where they stand -- one thing I found fascinating is that Lieberman and Kerry are identical. How strange that there's a chorus of voices pushing one of them out the door and another toward the White House. I can only conclude that this campaign is simply not about the issues.