Yes!

[yendi]

pnh explains the problems with that annoying "what candidate should you vote for" meme.

Comments

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Gee, now I feel like a total loser.

I certainly hope that nobody who actually did the meme thinks it defines who they SHOULD be voting for...it was all in fun, right? :/

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

...he's said exactly what I think on the issue, only (unsurprisingly) more eloquently than I ever could.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Enh. He pointed out some of the problems, but "explains" is too strong a term when he claims, effectively, that the choices just weren't liberal enough.

The real problem, of course, is giving a set of choices on any issue that correctly map to the spectrum of opinion of American voters, and then matching that spectrum to the limited set of positions espoused by the candidates.

And this quiz didn't do that. Or even come close.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Um, I can sum up the problem in three words: It's a quiz.

And yes, I took it.

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

None of those "what kind of yada yada are you" quizzes are meant to be taken seriously, and I don't think any of us do. We just take them for amusement.

I've taken a ton of the political candidate meme quizzes out of curiousity - just happened to post the results of this one. It has no bearing whatsoever on how I'm actually going to vote, but the results do make for interesting discussion.

In the words of the colonel from Stripes, "Lighten up, Francis."

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Gee, I hope those same problems don't plague my pending "Which Spunky Black Kid From An '80s Sitcom Are You?" quiz!!