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 Post subject: isidewith.com
PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:39 pm 
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http://isidewith.com

Has any checked out this site? It has a quiz you can take to allegedly match you up with the Presidential candidate who best matches your answers. It also seems to be aggregating results to give an idea of who is more popular (on the site, at least).

Anyone have any opinion on the site?

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I checked it out. It told me about a Candidate that I was unaware of the existence of.

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80% Gary Johnson.

74% Mittens.

65% Obizzle.

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Location: Ohio
Gary Johnson
Virgil Goode
Mitt Romney

State most aligned with: Ohio!!! NAILED IT *****!!! hahahahah Or not, the scripting kind of errored out at the end. But I am sticking to this theory.

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There aren't enough answers that start with "No, eliminate all federal..." for this to be a valid test for me....

Apparently I agree with Barack Obama on 10% of no issues?

It's a bit wonky, but the result doesn't really surprise me much...

Midgen's Results wrote:
94% Gary Johnson Libertarian
on foreign policy, economic, domestic policy, healthcare, science, and environmental issues

85% Mitt Romney Republican
on domestic policy, immigration, economic, and science issues

81% Virgil Goode Constitution
on foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, and science issues

10%Barack Obama Democrat
no major issues

1% Jill Stein Green
no major issues

1% Rocky Anderson Justice
no major issues

43% Washington Voters
on domestic policy, foreign policy, and economic issues.

47% American Voters
on domestic policy, foreign policy, and economic issues.


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Hopwin wrote:
Gary Johnson
Virgil Goode
Mitt Romney

State most aligned with: Ohio!!! NAILED IT *****!!! hahahahah Or not, the scripting kind of errored out at the end. But I am sticking to this theory.


No, its cause you live in Ohio.

I got CA, Midgen got WA. ;)

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I got 99% Ron Paul
98% Gary Johnson
3% O-Diddy
9% Mittens

Yeah about right

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Since this turned into a 'post the results' thread, here are mine:
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96%
Gary Johnson
on economic, foreign policy, domestic policy, social, immigration, healthcare, and science issues
74%
Jill Stein
on foreign policy, domestic policy, environmental, and immigration issues
72%
Virgil Goode
on economic, domestic policy, and healthcare issues
63%
Rocky Anderson
on foreign policy and immigration issues
57%
Mitt Romney
on economic and science issues
55%
Barack Obama
on foreign policy and immigration issues
57%
Texas Voters
on foreign policy, domestic policy, economic, social, immigration, science, environmental, and healthcare issues.
56%
American Voters
on foreign policy, domestic policy, social, immigration, environmental, and healthcare issues.

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Müs wrote:
Hopwin wrote:
Gary Johnson
Virgil Goode
Mitt Romney

State most aligned with: Ohio!!! NAILED IT *****!!! hahahahah Or not, the scripting kind of errored out at the end. But I am sticking to this theory.


No, its cause you live in Ohio.

I got CA, Midgen got WA. ;)

I said GOOD DAY SIR!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:55 pm 
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Jill Stein - 86%
Barack Obama - 83%
Gary Johnson - 74%
Mitt Romney - 30%

Economy - Obama
Domestic Policy - Johnson
Social - Johnson
Foreign Policy - Stein (almost certainly wrong, since I often favor military intervention, not just diplomatic stuff)
Environment - Stein
Health Care - Johnson (almost certainly wrong, since I generally support PPACA)
Immigration - Johnson
Science - Obama & Stein

So, yeah, the foreign policy and health care results seem off, but overall, I'd say this is roughly accurate for me. I'm pretty much a moderate Dem with libertarian leanings on domestic issues and interventionist leanings on foreign policy issues.


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Candidates you side with...

86%
Mitt Romney Republican
on environmental, foreign policy, domestic policy, immigration, and economic issues

79%
Gary Johnson Libertarian
on healthcare, domestic policy, foreign policy, immigration, and economic issues

72%
Barack Obama Democrat
on environmental, science, foreign policy, immigration, and economic issues

58%
Texas Voters
on environmental, domestic policy, science, healthcare, immigration, and social issues.

56%
American Voters
on environmental, science, domestic policy, immigration, healthcare, and social issues.

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Who the hell is Gary Johnson? Any chance his people are running/tweaking the site results?


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Apparently he's the Libertarian candidate (according to your first post). You were aware that there are other parties that field presidential candidates, right?

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At least for me this test is a bit biased because I know this stances of my favored candidates well.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:37 am 
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Spoiler:
97%

Mitt Romney Republican

on economic, social, domestic policy, immigration, healthcare, science, environmental, and foreign policy issues


84%

Virgil Goode Constitution

on social, economic, domestic policy, healthcare, environmental, science, and immigration issues


75%

Gary Johnson Libertarian

on economic, domestic policy, foreign policy, and healthcare issues


54%

Barack Obama Democrat

on environmental issues

51%

Ohio Voters

on economic, domestic policy, foreign policy, environmental, and immigration issues.


49%

American Voters

on economic, domestic policy, foreign policy, environmental, and immigration issues.
Problems:

This shows Obama as being for welfare to work, and expanding offshore drilling which I don't agree that he is. At the very least his actions don't point that direction.

also I have umbrige with the similarity of similar answers with pretty much every candidate. hopefully those are counting for less points

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:36 am 
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Candidates you side with...

98% Jill Stein
81% Barack Obama
79% Rocky Anderson
21% Mitt Romney


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:21 am 
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I took this a couple of months ago. I believe my order of preference was Gary Johnson (~75%), Ron Paul (~65), ... Barack Obama (~54), Mitt Romney (~30).

Don't overlook the fact that some sections have expanded questions you can also answer to get more accurate results. Figuring that out after the first time changed my numbers substantially.


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Yeah, thanks for the heads up on the "Choose another answer" option. Most of my responses came from there:

Spoiler:
86%
Jill Stein Green
on environmental, economic, domestic policy, science, social, and immigration issues

76%
Gary Johnson Libertarian
on foreign policy, domestic policy, healthcare, immigration, and social issues

75%
Barack Obama Democrat
on environmental, economic, immigration, and science issues

69%
Rocky Anderson Justice
on domestic policy, social, and immigration issues

12%
Mitt Romney Republican
no major issues

10%
Virgil Goode Constitution
no major issues

63%
California Voters
on foreign policy, environmental, domestic policy, healthcare, science, immigration, and social issues.

62%
American Voters
on foreign policy, environmental, domestic policy, healthcare, science, and immigration issues.


I am a bit surprised at the Libertarian result, however. 76% Lib, 75% Obama? Kind of schizophrenic.

And, yeah, who the hell is Rocky Anderson?

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80% Barack Obama Democrat
on science, social, foreign policy, economic, and environmental issues

73% Jill Stein Green
on science and environmental issues

62% Gary Johnson Libertarian
on immigration issues

34% Mitt Romney Republican
no major issues

59% Minnesota Voters
on domestic policy, foreign policy, social, science, environmental, healthcare, and immigration issues.

60% American Voters
on domestic policy, science, foreign policy, social, environmental, healthcare, and immigration issues.

No real surprises there.


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Gary Johnson Libertarian
on foreign policy, social, domestic policy, immigration, and environmental issues

71%
Barack Obama Democrat
on economic, immigration, and environmental issues

60%
Jill Stein Green
on domestic policy, healthcare, and immigration issues

41%
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Aethien wrote:
And, yeah, who the hell is Rocky Anderson?


He was the Mayor of Salt Lake City for awhile, and mostly a total left sided tool. He did some good things for the city though, so it wasn't all bad.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:18 am 
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Lenas wrote:
I took this a couple of months ago. I believe my order of preference was Gary Johnson (~75%), Ron Paul (~65), ... Barack Obama (~54), Mitt Romney (~30).

Don't overlook the fact that some sections have expanded questions you can also answer to get more accurate results. Figuring that out after the first time changed my numbers substantially.



That was 97% Johnson ;) (http://www.isidewith.com/results/15547175) I was looking up mine, and found your tweet.

I was 98/73/13 Johnson/Romney/Obama. (http://www.isidewith.com/results/123400131)

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How can you side within 15% of Gary Johnson, Mitt Romney and Baraka Obama? That makes no sense.

Yes, I said Baraka, the Tarkatan from Mortal Kombat. Yes, Baraka is a character in other works of fiction. **** that.

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Giving too much weight to what you "feel" might do it. ;)

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Vindicarre wrote:
That was 97% Johnson ;) (http://www.isidewith.com/results/15547175) I was looking up mine, and found your tweet.


Nice, thanks. Actually when I look at it now there's a new section that says "You" and I agree with my past self 89%, apparently. I think that link was the one I took before I figured out the expanded questions thing.


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