Multiple choice quiz at selectsmart.com matches your preferred positions in 17 different categories with a wide variety of candidates beyond the ten getting national attention.
The candidates' positions have been determined first by the candidate's actions, then their public votes, followed by their public statements, and whenever possible, special interest group rankings of the candidate have been factored in.There are also links to the bios and positions of each of the candidates that get listed in your results, which seem pretty accurate for Wesley Clark, the candidate with whom I'm most familiar.
My own results were:
1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (84%)
3. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH - Democrat (81%)
4. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR - Democrat (74%)
5. Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (72%)
6. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO - Democrat (65%)
7. Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (62%)
8. Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (61%)
9. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT - Democrat (47%)
10. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (47%)
11. Libertarian Candidate (34%)
12. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL - Democrat (25%)
13. Bush, President George W. - Republican (12%)
14. Phillips, Howard - Constitution (3%)
As a prototypical New York Upper West Side knee-jerk liberal, it doesn't suprise me to find Dean and Kucinich scoring higher than Gen. Clark (Kucinich reminds me of a really good high school teacher, the uplifter, and Dean of the Dean of Boys, the disciplinarian. Neither of them strikes me as a president.)
Of course, the quiz deliberately leaves out questions of "electability," which is made all the more apparent by their results to date:
39% Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat
13% Bush, George W. - US President
11% Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat
7% Green Party Candidate
6% Your ideal theoretical candidate.
6% Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat
6% Libertarian Candidate
3% Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat
2% Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat
2% Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat
2% Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat
1% Your ideal theoretical candidate.
What makes this all that more odd is that there have been over 140,000 responses.