What political party do your views correlate with?

[sorgoth]

The test (http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/compare/platlong.html)


I'm Green, moreso than I thought.

[Jocko]

Originally posted by sorgoth
The test (http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/compare/platlong.html)


I'm Green, moreso than I thought.

215 Republican, 110 Democrat... That was to be expected, but 120 GREEN?!! That was the only surprise there... did you also have the problem with parts of the platforms not appearing (#7's last choice was a single sentence fragment with no discrenable context whatsoever - I guess that was the Libertarian option).

[ASRomatifoso]

I am a registered Dem and have always voted my party, but I scored higher as Green Party. Interesting test. Though some parts of a statement discounted the rest of the statement for me, e.g., the statements on education sounded good until I got to the part about support for homeschooling. I despise homeschooling for many reasons, social, education, etc. and so I couldn't endorse those statements.

[DialecticMaterialist]

You rated the Democratic stances 374.


Figured that would be the results. I'm typically more liberal, but I try to avoid being far left.

The test left out some key issues though, like cloning, death penalty, welfare, military, curch-state separation, etc.

[jj]

It claims I'm a green. It is, therefore, a crock. I'm not.

[davefoc]

The highest possible rating, given the importance you assigned each issue, is 350.

You rated the Democratic stances 165. Democratic Platform

You rated the Green stances 180. Green Platform

You rated the Libertarian stances 215. Libertarian Platform.

You rated the Republican stances 150. Republican Platform.

Pretty much incorrect with regard to green party. I think I am an environmental moderate. I favored drilling in ANWAR for instance.

Not suprising about Libertarian, I see myself as moderate libertarian.

Not too surprising on Republican/Democrat. I tend to vote Republican but probably side with democrats on more issues. I just place more importance on issues I favor Republicans for.

[Cain]

Not suprising about Libertarian, I see myself as moderate libertarian.

Not too surprising on Republican/Democrat. I tend to vote Republican but probably side with democrats on more issues. I just place more importance on issues I favor Republicans for.

Did you make sure to click the rating at the top for how important each issue is to you? It should have taken that into account.

381 Green
281 Democrat
185 Libertarian
149 Republican

I am registered Green.

[davefoc]

Cain, you were right. I didn't notice the option to set the importance of the the issue. The new results after I set that selection for each question.

Democratic 176
Green 234.
Libertarian 240.
Republican 196

Now the only thing that surprises me is the green party thing. Maybe I just didn't understand what they were. I would think I am way too much of an environmental moderate for them. Plus I thought there was a socialist aspect to the green party. So I wouldn't have thought I was all that close to the green party.

[Agammamon]

What the parties stated planks are and the policies they are actually implementing are two very different things. On many issues the four parties have similar if not identical positions, for example on the budget issue they all favor a balanced budget and a constitutional amendment requiring debt elimination. So how come neither the Democrats or the Republicans are doing anything to implement it? Especially the Rebublicans. They are supposed to be the fiscally conservative group and yet we haven't had debts this large (as a percentage of GDP) since the Nixon administration.
You can't just look at what a party say it will do to determine your affilitation. You have to look at what it does when in office.

[hgc]

Dem - 235
Grn - 270
Lib - 95
Rep - 100

Uh oh. My conservative credentials have been blown to bits. For the record: I strongly oppose 'hate crimes' laws, and I'm not too hot on gun control.