If the world could decide
This is just out of curiousity, and I’m not even pretending this has any sort of scientific validity. Still:
If you live outside the U.S, could you spend a few minutes taking this test to determine which American candidate you would want to see in office, and report back the following in a comment here (one on each line):
- Your country of origin.
- Your ‘favourite’ candidate. Last name only.
- The candidate you’d least like to see. Last name only.
You are encouraged to comment anonymously, just fill in anon, anon@anon.com and leave the URL blank.
Comments
Comment from Moose on 2004-02-10 06:20
Your country of origin.
Poland
Your ‘favourite’ candidate.
Kerry
The candidate you’d least like to see.
Sharpton
That’s the result of the test. I find it consistently funny that an Iraq-aggression-opposing environment-aware libertarian gets classified as a Democrat, which, translated into European reality, means - a socialist.
For me, it’s a hoot.
M.
Comment from Lasse on 2004-02-10 09:44
Your country of origin:
Norway
Your ‘favourite’ candidate:
Kucinich. According to the test, that is.
The candidate you’d least like to see:
Bush - again, according to the test.
Looks to me like the test was’t all that off, after all ;-)
Comment from anon on 2004-02-10 09:57
Like Lasse: Norway, Kucinich, Bush - except that the Bush part is according to me as well as the test ;)
Comment from Jor on 2004-02-10 10:14
Your country of origin.
the Netherlands
Your ‘favourite’ candidate.
Sharpton — according to the test anyway
The candidate you’d least like to see.
Dean — according to the test anyway
In reality my political stance is ‘anything but Bush’.
Comment from Elf on 2004-02-10 10:19
Country: Norway
Favourite: Kucinich
Least favourite: Bush
Comment from Anon on 2004-02-10 13:27
Country: Netherlands
Favorite candidate: Kucinich
Least favorite candidate: Bush
Ho hum… problem was that many of the issues you’re asked to take a stance on, are not entirely clear to me, especially the finer points of economics and health care, so the “social” issues got relatively more extreme answers from me and hence the poll was a bit biased. The second question got me trying to figure out what the heck “partial birth abortion” is. Finding out what it is, was quite unnerving. Despite good reasons why this might be medically necessary, it’s not something that you would want performed in cases where there is no acute physical/medical need.
Comment from Arve on 2004-02-10 13:37
Partial birth abortion is an abortion in the second or third trimester of the pregnancy.
Comment from anon on 2004-02-10 15:15
Country: Norway
Favourite: Sharpton
Least favourite: Bush
Comment from Geir on 2004-02-10 15:57
Country: Norway
Favourite (test): Kucinich (100%)!
Favourite (other): Sharpton (96%)
Least fav (test): Bush (12%)
Least fav (other): Bush
Other signifies my personal opinion. Test results included for reference.
Comment from anon on 2004-02-10 20:07
Country: Norway
Favourite: Kucinich - 100% match
Least favourite: Bush - 2% match
Comment from Peter Pentchev on 2004-02-10 22:12
Country: Bulgaria
Favorite: Kerry (100%)
Least favorite: Bush (47%)
Comment from Morten Hanssen on 2004-02-11 01:21
Your country of origin: Norway.
Your ‘favourite’ candidate: Kucinich.
The candidate you’d least like to see: Bush.
Comment from Jarle on 2004-02-11 09:52
Country: Norway
Favourite: Kucinich
Least favourite: Take a wild guess ;-)
BTW: I was most surprised by finding Sharpton as a strong second runner up. If I allowed to vote I am sure I would have voted for one of the democratic favourites, or Clark :-)
Comment from Arwen on 2004-02-11 17:56
Originally from: Canada
Now living in: Germany
My Valentine: Kucinich
Obviously, there’s only one possible…
Comment from Stian on 2004-02-11 21:08
Norway, Kucinich (100%), Bush (12%).
Comment from kyle on 2004-02-11 21:14
Country: Canada
Favourite: Kucinich (100%)
Least favourite: Bush
Comment from Tommy on 2004-02-12 01:30
Norway, Kucinich (100%), Bush (11%).
Comment from anon on 2004-02-12 08:36
Norway/Germany
Kucinich: 100%
Bush: 7%
Comment from anon on 2004-02-12 10:34
Norway
Kucinich: 100%
Bush: 6%
Comment from Cafe on 2004-02-12 13:13
Origin : France
Favourite : Kucinich (100%)
Least : Bush (4%)
Comment from Peter Karlsson on 2004-02-12 20:19
Country of origin: Sweden
“Favourite” candidate: Sharpton (100%)
Least favourite candidate: Bush
What I can’t figure is how Bush managed to score 79%
Comment from anon on 2004-02-13 15:59
Norway
Kucinich: 100%
Bush: 39%
Comment from Anders Carlsson on 2004-02-13 18:17
Sweden
Kerry (100%)
Bush (27%)
Comment from brett on 2004-02-14 00:33
United Kingdom
Sharpton Score: 100%
Bush Score: 32%
Comment from anon on 2004-02-14 14:12
Norway;
Kucinich: 100%
Sharpton: 96%
Kerry: 93%
…
Bush: 7%
Comment from anon on 2004-02-15 02:37
Canada
Bush
I hope this reads as “anybody but Bush would be a great deal better; but any of the candidates would still leave a great deal of room for improvement.
If you want to know how big a bully the US is, live next to it.
Henry
Comment from ina on 2004-02-15 07:57
Norway
Yes: Kucinich (100%)
NFW: Bush (6%)
Comment from Arve on 2004-02-27 01:19
I have deleted a comment from this entry, in case the original author of that comment misses it. The comment I deleted is on an issue considered controversial in many parts of the world, abortion.
Still: My deletion of the message had nothing to do with the authors’ views or opinions. Please understand that I have always had, and will always have the practice of removing messages I consider to be off-topic.
If you wish to debate issues like the one I have deleted, I hope you can find an appropriate forum on the web. Thank you.
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