Who are you voting for/who did you already vote for?

[Russell Nash]

i thought nader was running for the Ecology party....
i could be wrong.

i need to vote soon.

Remember to vote early and vote often.

[Heradel]

i thought nader was running for the Ecology party....
i could be wrong.

i need to vote soon.

Remember to vote early and vote often.

Oi, you're in Berlin, not Chicago (...several decades back).

[Russell Nash]

i thought nader was running for the Ecology party....
i could be wrong.

i need to vote soon.

Remember to vote early and vote often.

Oi, you're in Berlin, not Chicago (...several decades back).

A couple of years in NYC and he's turned Yiddish, folks.

[Heradel]

i thought nader was running for the Ecology party....
i could be wrong.

i need to vote soon.

Remember to vote early and vote often.

Oi, you're in Berlin, not Chicago (...several decades back).

A couple of years in NYC and he's turned Yiddish, folks.

Actually, I picked up Yiddishisms from my best friend in kingergarden's mother about a decade and a half back, so it's not completely the change in place.

[stePH]

I was just being silly.  In truth, I'm very jaded with our two party system.

You're in the target audience for Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast.

[Zathras]

I was just being silly.  In truth, I'm very jaded with our two party system.

You're in the target audience for Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast.

Gonna check that out, thanks.

[Alasdair5000]

Well seeing as we're getting an election at some point in the next eighteen months, that might be kind of interesting:)

Also tedious and profoundly unsettling and rage inducing.  Welcome to English politics.  Want some tea?

[wintermute]

Woohoo!  My candidate is in second place right now!!!!

Heh. I was looking at no votes for anyone other than Obama, and I thought "I bet Zathras hasn't voted yet..."

I bash Republicans, too.

Sure. I was just pretty sure you weren't an Obama voter. I was also 80% sure that you weren't a McCain voter, either. If I'd had to pick, I'd have gone for Cynthia McKinley...

[Zathras]

Sure. I was just pretty sure you weren't an Obama voter. I was also 80% sure that you weren't a McCain voter, either. If I'd had to pick, I'd have gone for Cynthia McKinley...

Please tell me you were joking.  Ugg.  Maybe I should write in Cthulu like I did in '96.

Thanks for the heads up on the Common Sense podcast.  Don't know if I like his style yet, but I'm gonna listen to a few more episodes.

[Heradel]

The LGBTQ Marriage discussion has been split off: Vote Poll Split: A Civil Conversation on Gay Marriage

[Zathras]

Senator McCain was in Albuquerque this morning, and Senator Obama will be in this evening.  Makes me wonder if they are after me.   

It's too bad that both of them are wasting their time.

[Roney]

This seems like the right thread for a link to the Political Compass chart of the candidates.

The disclaimers... Political Compass can only go by their assessment of the public policy statements of the candidates: it's not as if any of them submit their test results.  Although separating the low-tax/high-spend axis from the personal-liberty/public-safety axis affords more flexible categorization than simply "right/left", there's still a fair amount of subjectivity in the analysis.  The fact that the political center ground around which the candidates cluster around is not at the centre of the chart is not a Euro-pinko judgement on American politics -- check out the assessments of other Western democracies on the site and see how similar they are.

Those disclaimers and the reasons for them are better explained in the FAQ.

The fun thing to do (IMO) is to take the test yourself at Political Compass and see how well your results match those of the various candidates.  It takes 5-10 minutes depending on how long you spend considering the questions.

[Heradel]

[wintermute]

Heradel: I'm a bit to the left and above that. But not much.

[Heradel]

Heradel: I'm a bit to the left and above that. But not much.

I did it a few years ago, if I remember correctly I was on the left but just barely authoritarian.

[Nt 2 B TKN INTRNLY]

[Russell Nash]

I think the economic part has me way too far left, but I don't think the social part is too far off.  Of course my social score was mainly reflected in the words of Ronald Reagan, "Government should stay out of the bedroom."  Of course as George Carlin noted Ronald Reagan didn't mind letting the government climb into a woman's uterus.

[Zathras]

I don't trust this test.  They had too many absolutes.

Hunh.  Gonna have to learn how to post images now.

The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.21

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[Zathras]

Hmmmm.  Maybe the Drazi were on to something.

[jrderego]

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

[stePH]

Hmmmm.  Maybe the Drazi were on to something.

I remember the Drazi being abysmally stupid, and wondering how they ever became spacefaring.  What aspect of their race/society did you have in mind?

[Zathras]

Purple

[sirana]

Feels about right.

[thomasowenm]

Economic 6.75
Social      0.82

Pretty close though I think I would be a little farther right on the economic scale.

[stePH]

Green must fight Purple. Purple must fight Green. Is no other way!

Ah, yes ... that was where I first took notice of the Drazi, and came to the conclusion that they were a race of utter fucking morons.  Nothing I saw during any subsequent part of the series helped to elevate my opinion of them.

Again, how did a people so hopelessly stupid ever develop the wheel, to say nothing of space travel?