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Over at Catty's blog, I found the website ElectoralCompass.com which gives a fairly quick snapshot of your position and which candidate you most closely align with. They have two basic poles, economic issues and social issues. I clocked in as a liberal on both, apparently most closely aligned with Obama, though it had me equally well-suited to go with Edwards, except that he's no longer equally well-suited to be voted for. Of course, this tool is a fairly imprecise instrument, and it has to be in order to hold the attention of most of us; I started a similar thing off of the NPR website, but it was just too much work at the time. I flew right through this one. And wouldn't use it to tell me how to vote anyway.
What I found really telling about the graph at the end, where the candidates are plotted along with you, is that there are no candidates who fit a profile of economically conservative and socially liberal or economically liberal and socially conservative, so if you happened to fall into one of those categories, tough luck. You'll have to compromise some of your principles to vote for anyone with any shot in these elections.
I knew that, of course; it was just nice to have the broken nature of our political discourse graphically represented.
I won't be unhappy voting for Obama. Something about Hillary makes me
nervous, but if she ends up being the democratic choice, that is where I'll
end up. Now if you take the whole Democratic ticket out of the race, and
someone is holding a gun to your head (just kidding), which of the
Republican candidates would be the most likely to get your vote? I would
have to take a hard look at Romney.
I did some similar things and posted about them a couple of weeks ago.
Back then I aligned up most closely with Kucinich. Now I'm right there
with Obama.