Interesting online political poll

[Capt Bringdown]

isidewith.com (http://www.isidewith.com/)

A fun exercise for the upcoming US presidential election. It's not likely to change anyone's vote, but goes past the polarizing conservative vs. liberal hot air with a look at a wide range of issues.

Nice implementation. I especially like the "choose another stance" feature - I haven't seen this executed like this anywhere else.

LOL, introduced me to some new candidates as well:

http://www.isidewith.com/_imgs/blogs/9819750_200.jpg
Jimmy McMillan is the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party

It's seems that I'm Mr Romney's side on no major issues. Shocked!

[ElNono]

Neat... here are my results:

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31009287.jpg

[baseline bum]

The results are bullshit; apparently I side with Obama 76% because I like the shit he says in speeches as opposed to what he actually does. I'm not sure how wanting universal health care is siding with Obama on healthcare either.

http://i.imgur.com/0O0zk.png

[Capt Bringdown]

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee280/rayong_kid/side.jpg

[scott]

I purposely tried to pick the most hard-line conservative choices available (at least my impression of what they would be) to see what the results would be. Here they are:

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31105969.jpg

Going to try again with what I consider to be the most hard-line liberal choices available. Then maybe I'll pick what I actually believe...

[Clipper Nation]

http://i.imgur.com/DK6LQ.jpg

Not really surprising, tbh.....

[baseline bum]

I purposely tried to pick the most hard-line conservative choices available (at least my impression of what they would be) to see what the results would be. Here they are:

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31105969.jpg


You could have just waited for WC to post.

[scott]

Didn't see the Choose Another Option in the Conservative Version, so I answered all "Yes-No" on those. Too lazy to go back and do it again.

But here is my Liberal version with Choose Another Option choices included.

Again, just doing this because I'm curious how the candidates align to their "bases" according to this site. And because I'm bored.

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31114812.jpg

[Wild Cobra]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31114338.jpg

[baseline bum]

Damn, I had WC pegged as only 89% Romney and 88% Paul

http://i.imgur.com/RlhVL.png

LOL Republican

[Wild Cobra]

Damn, I had WC pegged as only 89% Romney and 88% Paul

http://i.imgur.com/RlhVL.png

LOL Republican
Sorry to let you down.

[ElNono]

Damn, I had WC pegged as only 89% Romney and 88% Paul

LOL Republican

lol underestimating cheerleader...

[mercos]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31155378.jpg

Guess Liberal with a side of hawkish foreign policy gives you Obama. Sounds about right I guess.

[mavs>spurs]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31219006.jpg

[Juggity]

http://i.imgur.com/pefH8.png

[NASpurs]

Yeah I'm all over the place.

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31035986.jpg

[Yonivore]

Probably because of my departure from the Libertarian platform on foreign policy.


http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/31367702.jpg

[desflood]

I side with Gary Johnson on most issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.

Who you side with by party...

95%
Libertarian
72%
Democratic
65%
Republican
64%
Green

[EVAY]

My results showed that I agreed with Jill Stein on most issues and I don't have the first clue who she is.

I didn't know that I was supposed to post my responses on the posts here.

I don't remember who came in second.

Who is Jill Stein?

[coyotes_geek]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/32654144.jpg

[TE]

http://i49.tinypic.com/1zbclu9.jpg

[boutons_deux]

weird how high Obama-agrees correlates with Texas-agrees??

[TeyshaBlue]

Welp, I'm fairly surprised.

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/32745078.jpg

[coyotes_geek]

Welp, I'm fairly surprised.


You libtard!!!! :ihit

[baseline bum]

You libtard!!!! :ihit

Shut up teabagger! :nutkick:

[TeyshaBlue]

You libtard!!!! :ihit

gfy:p:

[z0sa]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/33388732.jpg

Additionally, I sided 92% with Texas Voters on domestic policy, economic, science, immigration, healthcare, social, foreign policy, and environmental issues.

90% of American Voters on domestic policy, economic, science, social, foreign policy, immigration, healthcare, and environmental issues.

I think I am a fiscally conservative moderate with libertarian leanins, FWIW.

[TeyshaBlue]

If anyone is even mildly surprised by the outcome of their survey, I'd suggest that the "importance" metric is a huge player in the results. Pretty sure it aggressively weights the category or question you answered if you moved the importance slider away from center. I think that's what really kicked me into my apparent love affair with Obama.

[MannyIsGod]

I got Gary Johnson. I LOLed when it told me I agreed with Ron Paul on the environment. Yeah how about no?

[DarrinS]

Said I agreed most with Gary Johson and Ron Paul.

Poll is obviously not very good.

[Clipper Nation]

I got Gary Johnson. I LOLed when it told me I agreed with Ron Paul on the environment. Yeah how about no?

Paul's actually a pretty eco-friendly candidate if you don't buy the EPA's bullshit, tbh... he proposes using tort law to actually punish polluters in a court of law while driving up the cost of pollution, as opposed to the liberal "solution" of EPA permits that don't solve anything and expensive regulations that punish small businesses.... he also opposes oil and gas subsidies....

[Wild Cobra]

Paul's actually a pretty eco-friendly candidate if you don't buy the EPA's bullshit, tbh... he proposes using tort law to actually punish polluters in a court of law while driving up the cost of pollution, as opposed to the liberal "solution" of EPA permits that don't solve anything and expensive regulations that punish small businesses.... he also opposes oil and gas subsidies....

Authoritarians just don't understand that libertarian solutions can work better.

[MannyIsGod]

Paul's actually a pretty eco-friendly candidate if you don't buy the EPA's bullshit, tbh... he proposes using tort law to actually punish polluters in a court of law while driving up the cost of pollution, as opposed to the liberal "solution" of EPA permits that don't solve anything and expensive regulations that punish small businesses.... he also opposes oil and gas subsidies....

Paul is a terrible candidate if you want to protect the environment. He has no concept of a resource that all of society owns such as the ocean or the atmosphere. He feels you can do whatever you want with your land. Sure if you pollute someone elses land then you get to sue but I would in no way say that is an effective strategy against large corporations (LOL BP).

He also doesn't buy into climate change. Or he says he doesn't now after he did in the past. Any candidate who ignores basic science and starts decrying evolution and climate change (not aware of Pauls stance on evolution but I'm using it s an example of the type of scientific thinking I avoid) is not going to get very far with me.

The min problem with this poll is its based off of what these guys say when many don't men it one bit. I'm good for the environment! I'm sure thats what they all say. Too bad the reality is very different.

[MannyIsGod]

Not to mention even if I had faith in the civil legal systems ability to work properly when large corpations were involved, its still a matter of shutting the barn door after the horse is out. Oh, you just contaminated the water supply that millions rely on through the dumping of toxic waste on private land? Prepare to get sued!

[Blake]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/34433702.jpg

”do you believe in the theory of evolution?”

Smh

[MannyIsGod]

Authoritarians just don't understand that libertarian solutions can work better.

:lol Romney supporter.

[Clipper Nation]

Not to mention even if I had faith in the civil legal systems ability to work properly when large corpations were involved, its still a matter of shutting the barn door after the horse is out. Oh, you just contaminated the water supply that millions rely on through the dumping of toxic waste on private land? Prepare to get sued!
Still a better solution than "Prepare to get a meaningless permit," tbh....

[Clipper Nation]

He feels you can do whatever you want with your land.

God forbid we actually RESPECT property rights in this country! The horror.... :rolleyes

[MannyIsGod]

Still a better solution than "Prepare to get a meaningless permit," tbh....

Nice strawman. I don't remember where I advocated meaningless permits? I advocate the strong protection of community resources - ESPECIALLY water supplies - because they don't belong to any one person. You're the one that came in on a white horse trying to defend Paul's stupid ideas.

You will get no where protecting the environment with a punitive system because the damages and the ability to pay damages are rarely equal and the loss to society as a whole is greater.

The current system we have is far from perfect but I don't see how anyone can successfully argue against regulation and prevention being the best ways by far to protect the environment. Have you seen any American rivers burning recently?

[MannyIsGod]

God forbid we actually RESPECT property rights in this country! The horror.... :rolleyes

Property rights =! doing whatever you want with your land. I cannot go buy an acre, and have a toxic waste dump on it where the waste is both allowed to enter the atmosphere and the water supply.

Yes, that would be a horror and its definitely something to be concerned about. The environmental history of corporations where regulation is absent is quite well documented.

Ask the people of Bopal what they think about lawsuits.

[boutons_deux]

"Have you seen any American rivers burning recently"

but the Mississippi is a septic cess pool poisoning the Gulf, and all rivers and fish tested were polluted with methyl mercury from coal plants

[MannyIsGod]

Just to be clear, I have no problems with suing polluters. I have a severe problem with anyone who believes that we can protect our national resources solely through a punitive system.

[Wild Cobra]

Just to be clear, I have no problems with suing polluters. I have a severe problem with anyone who believes that we can protect our national resources solely through a punitive system.
The problem is the punitive action is laughable.

Save $1,000,000 dollars... get caught... get a $50,000 fine.

How many times are they not caught?

[Drachen]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/35036502.jpg

Now i have to look and see who jill stein is.

Also, the numbers are all relatively close to one another which bolsters my claim that I am a left leaning centrist.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/35073269.jpg

As with most of these things I felt that the questions were loaded and fixated on forced paradigms. The debt ceiling question for example just made me roll my eyes as I think the notion of a debt ceiling as if it's like balancing your CC statements is just asinine.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Authoritarians just don't understand that libertarian solutions can work better.

Stupid people do not understand that sweeping generalizations are not the solution to anything.