Who should you support in the primaries

[Klast Brell]

This is kind of interesting.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projec ... race_id=13
Yes i know it's from NPR but get over your hate for a while and try it. I was kind of surprised it picked Mr. $400 haircut for me. I thought it would have picked Gravel or Kucinich but I guess I'm more conservative than I thought. It definitely does not take electability in to account. I may agree with Edwards on most things but I also think he has a snowball's chance of beating Romney or Guliany in November 08.

[Trollbait]

Here is my list in the order that they appeared

Ron Paul

Mike Huckabee

Rudy Giuliani

Duncan Hunter

John McCain

Tom Tancredo

Fred Thompson

Dennis Kucinich

Mitt Romney

Joe Biden

Mike Gravel

Chris Dodd

Hillary Clinton

John Edwards

Barack Obama

Bill Richardson


No real suprises for me.

[Partha]

The list it gave me, with the ratings:

Kucinch - 20.0
Clinton/Dodd - 18.0
Richardson - 17.0
Edwards - 16.0
Gravel/Obama - 15.0
Paul - 13.0
Biden - 11.0
Giuliani - 10.0
Huckabee - 5.0
Romney - 4.0
McCain - 3.0
Hunter/Tancredo/Thompson - 1.0

Not really terribly surprising to me, since the three smaller D candidates can be bolder in their language and Clinton has interchangable positions. My personal support goes Edwards/Obama/Dodd/Clinton in that order.

[Finglefinn]

Duncan Hunter 16.0
Mitt Romney 16.0
Fred Thompson 16.0
Rudy Giuliani 14.0
Tom Tancredo 13.0
Mike Huckabee 12.0
John McCain 12.0
Ron Paul 12.0
Joe Biden 9.0
Barack Obama 7.0
Hillary Clinton 6.0
John Edwards 6.0
Dennis Kucinich 6.0
Chris Dodd 5.0
Bill Richardson 5.0
Mike Gravel 3.0

No surprises here, except Bill Richardson. I like him more than I like any of the other Dem candidates. I guess I didn't know his position on issues as well as I thought. No surprises at the top, either. If you put a gun to my head and said I had to choose between the top three on my list all tied at 16/21, I'd probably choose Thompson.

That's a really cool activity, Klast. Thanks for sharing.

[Embar Angylwrath]

John McCain 27.0

Tom Tancredo 25.0

Ron Paul 23.0

Duncan Hunter 22.0

Fred Thompson 22.0

Mike Huckabee 19.0

Mitt Romney 18.0

Rudy Giuliani 14.0

Joe Biden 12.0

Mike Gravel 8.0

Bill Richardson 8.0

Chris Dodd 7.0

Dennis Kucinich 7.0

Barack Obama 7.0

Hillary Clinton 4.0

John Edwards 1.0

[Lurker]

My Tancredo score was zero.

[Kulaf]

Joe Biden was on top for me.....which considering his stance on Iraq is not news to me.

[Klast Brell]

John Edwards 11.0
Bill Richardson 11.0
Hillary Clinton 10.0
Chris Dodd 9.0
Dennis Kucinich 9.0
Barack Obama 9.0
Joe Biden 8.0
Mike Gravel 6.0
Ron Paul 5.0
Mike Huckabee 3.0
John McCain 3.0
Mitt Romney 2.0
Duncan Hunter 1.0
Tom Tancredo 1.0
Fred Thompson 1.0

[Jarochai Alabaster]

Dodd (25)
Biden (20)
Clinton (19)
Edwards (19)
Kucinich (18)
Obama (18)

No real reason to give the whole list.

[Harlowe]

None of the candidates scored higher than a 7 for me. Fred Thompson was last, but really considering no was more than 6 points ahead of him, I have no great preference in this crowd. At all.

[Ddrak]

None of the candidates scored higher than a 7 for me. Fred Thompson was last, but really considering no was more than 6 points ahead of him, I have no great preference in this crowd. At all.

I was the same. Pretty much everyone was 5-7. I figured it was trying to tell me that Australians shouldn't vote in US elections.

Dd

[Arkaron]

Giuliani 20.0
Hillary Clinton 17.0
Dennis Kucinich 17.0
Joe Biden 16.0
Chris Dodd 16.0
Barack Obama 16.0

[Chants Evensong]

Rudy 17
McCain 16

That will be the republican ticket.

[Trollbait]

If you are on these boards claiming to be a libertarian and Ron Paul did not score at the top of your list you may wish to rethink your claims.

[Partha]

Why, you intolerant so-and-so, you.

/Harlowe,Tim, and Dd.

[Finglefinn]

So how many of you would vote for the candidate that is tops on your list?

[Ddrak]

If I was actually allowed to vote, I'd be more concerned with who was electable than who meshed best with my positions. Ultimately you're really voting for the person who will win for your chosen party, which usually means trying to get the person who will appeal to the broadest base nominated. It's taking the lesser evil of "my party but not my guy" vs "not my party".

The short answer to your question, Fingle, is "not me".

Of course, I think the whole concept of primaries is retarded anyway, so my opinion isn't worth much here.

Dd

[Harlowe]

If you are on these boards claiming to be a libertarian and Ron Paul did not score at the top of your list you may wish to rethink your claims.

Oh please, you are hardly King Shit of Libertarians to pass judgement on any of us. You seem to think it's just another branch of the Republicans apparently. Maybe if it were the Old School Repubs, but that is hardly the case anymore. Many of us so-called libertarians are mostly concerned about our personal liberties - which have been vastly unprotected, and in fact raped by the current administration. This president is absolutely in opposition to libertarian principals with regard to personal liberties. He is socially intolerant. Ron Paul is also not a great proponent of personal liberties, so I hardly think he's our MUST VOTE for candidate.

Here maybe this will help put "Libertarians" into perspective, since it's right from the party site.

Libertarian: A person who upholds the principles of individual liberty especially of thought and action. Capitalized: a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles.

Libertarians are also socially tolerant. We won't demand laws or restrictions on other people who we may not agree because of personal actions or lifestyles.

Think of us as a group of people with a "live and let live" mentality and a balanced checkbook.

Yep, that sounds about right. Those are the things important to me, albeit in the most general sense.

So, right now, by voting for a Republican you go against libertarian principals with regard to personal liberties. If you vote Demcrat generally you are going against the libertarian principals with regard to economic liberties - though, not to any great degree if the current party is any measure of the economic responsiblity or frugality of Republicans now.

Which party is going to offer us the candidate of lesser evils? That remains to be seen.

I would like to see a nice old school Republican or a moderate Democrat.

[Rsak]

I fail to see how a libertarian and a democrat can see eye to eye on something like hate crime legislation.

[Partha]

I would like to see a nice old school Republican or a moderate Democrat.

'moderate Democrat' is code for 'Republican'. See Lieberman, Joe.