Arghhh!!!! I left this really long, well-written comment and then forgot I had to double-submit!

Redux: The first quiz is poor. The assumptions it makes are not entirely accurate, forcing me to choose between answering the question as written or answering the question I assumed the writer really intended. My results were similar to yours, though the percentages were lower for both.

The second was much better written. I appreciated the author’s giving us a description of what each response to each question meant (if you clicked the link), meaning I didn’t have to make assumptions about his assumptions. Once again, I received similar results as yours, though all the percentages were 15-20 points lower. Kerry, Dean, and Nader were all at the bottom. The Libertarian guy was up there near the others.

As expected Mr. Peroutka and I see alike.

I definitely agree with your assertions — I think the second quiz is a bit better in its implementation (they have a lot of practice — it seems it was first published for the last presidential election). Sounds like you don’t fit the mold.

I’m actually rather surprised at how “Bushy” I came out, as I noted on Christopher’s entry about this.

Mark: It looks like I agree with him a lot on social issues (more so than the President), but I agree with him less on economic issues. I should probably know this, but do you know off hand where he differs economically from Dubya?

Tim

Closing the borders, breaking up the power of the big centrel govt so big business will have alot less influence. See here for better details. http://www.godfamilyrepublic.com/index.php

Thanks, Mark. That’s kind of interesting… I’d think with those kind of policies, I’d have been a lot closer to Peroutka. Of course, in reality, I’d suspect I’d be somewhere between Dubya and a more libertarian view of government.