http://wsj.com/votecompass

Turns out I'm closest to the Green Party. Hehe

My coordinates are -12,15 unweighted and -10,15 weighted.

[Each block is 7x7]

Where do you guys stand? Is anyone in either the bottom left or upper right quadrant?

I'm at 6,3 unweighted and weighted

So I am in the upper right.

Questions in which I disagreed with Gary Johnson

#1 Degree of support of Israel
#2 Ease of workers forming a union
#3 Government doing more to stop global warming
#4 Government allowing drilling in the arctic
#5 Government approving the oil pipeline

For the rest of the questions, my answers aligned with his (if you treat strongly agree and somewhat agree as being answers that aligned).

10, 4 not weighted. 10, 1 weighted.

So upper right, Piles of much needed economic conservatism, coupled with not caring what anyone else does socially/personally/morally.

Do what you want with your life, just leave a viable country for my children to appreciate.

I do agree with Gary Johnson. Someday I may be able to vote for a candidate. Since Reagan I've only voted against candidates.

89% green :>

-4, 12 Socially to the left of the dems ecomomically to their right.

70% Gary Johnson
59% Obama, Stein
49% Goode
43% Romney

I voted for Obama in 2008, and then Libertarian candidates in 2010, then became a member of the LP, and am going to write-in Gary Johnson (he got sued off the ballot in Michigan by the GOP), so the results aren't surprising.

Pretty spot on as to where I am at.

So far, 7 people have taken this test.

2 of them are closest to the Green Party.

1 of them is fairly close to the Green Party.

4 of them are closer to Libertarians.

Interesting results so far. I'm curious about others participating and getting a larger sample size!

For those that are fiscally conservative but socially liberal, what is the rationale behind it? I mean...we just had 8 years of Bush and he wasn't exactly a shining beacon of how to run an economy. So what are your reasons?

4, 12 unweighted

1, 13 weighted

Upper right quadrant

Unweighted it said I was most similar to Gary Johnson. Weighted I was most similar to Barack Obama.

I'll be voting for Gary Johnson on election day, mostly because I can't bring myself to vote for anybody from the two major parties.

-4, 5 unweighted, with with an error circle of +/-7.

66% Obama
63% Stein
48% Johnson
44% Romney
42% Goode

Weighted, my error circle goes down to +/-5 vertically, but stays +/- 7 horizontally. Obama and Stein also then tie at 65%. Nothing else moves.

-Fooglmog
Guy with no clue.

I'm not fiscally conservative, this vote compass is just incredibly poorly constructed.

But Bush is not what I would call "fiscally conservative." Federal spending was 1.79 trillion when he took office, and was 2.98 trillion when he left office 8 years later.

I'm a libertarian socialist. I believe that pork is wrong, that corporate welfare is wrong, that government bailouts of big businesses (while letting small businesses fail) is wrong, but most of all, that 16 trillion in debt is wrong and will kill our country.

Obama, Romney, Bush, and the entire Democrat and Republic establishments are corporate pawns who will always increase government spending and increase government intervention into the market on behalf of big businesses against small businesses. Corporations are a creation of the government, they are a legal entity. Any laissez-faire economy will not permit corporations to exist. If corporations are allowed to exist, then their inevitable result is to become so powerful as to influence the decisions of public policy makers and to cause the government to support some corporations while attacking others. If you permit government to regulate industry, and permit industry to buy government protection, then you ensure a system where the government is a weapon used by big business against smaller businesses. Regulations overwhelmingly harm small business, as they will find it much harder to jump through all the hoops big businesses set up than the big businesses will. Regulation merely increases the need to hire lawyers to ensure that you are in compliance with the law. And in many cases, regulation not only requires you to hire lawyers to ensure compliance with the law, but also requires that you make campaign donations to the political establishment to make it possible for you to be in compliance with the law.

Bush, Romney, and Obama are all very far away from me economically. None of them are fiscally conservative. None of them will bring us reasonable spending by the government. None of them are friends of small business.

They are not fiscally conservative or fiscally liberal. They are fiscally state capitalists who support big businesses at the expense of small business and increase government spending at a rapid rate. I am neither fiscally conservative or fiscally liberal. I am a libertarian socialist.

This "test" is a joke because it does not realize this fact. Neither me, nor Obama, Romney, or Bush belong on the line between fiscally conservative and fiscally liberal. That's like trying to put the note "b flat" on the continuum between blue and yellow. It just makes no sense.

i didn't take the test because there's no SPUSA or PSL on it anyway

Based on this test I was in the bottom Right closest to the GOP. I should add that I was also almost equally as close to the Libertarian group.

Based on the survey I agree with Romney 72%, Gary Johnson 63%, Obama 39%.

I don't think this survey 100% captures a person's political views but it was a neat tool.

Except for foreign support and gun laws, Obama and I see eye to eye.

I ended up pretty close to the middle but left economically.

I'm in the upper left, -3,8. Too bad I can't vote.

Weighted Results:
67% Stein
55% Obama
....
31% Romney

I REALIZE ROCKMAN ALREADY ANSWERED THIS QUESTION PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WAY I'M GOING TO, BUT BUSH WAS NEITHER FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE, NOR SOCIALLY LIBERAL. IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HOLD HIM UP AS AN EXAMPLE OF LIBERTARIAN IDEAS FAILING.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, I ENDED UP IN THE UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT ON THIS TEST, JUST ABOUT DEAD ON THE LIBERTARIAN DOT. AGREED 90% WITH JOHNSON UNWEIGHTED, 91% WEIGHTED. NEXT CLOSEST WERE VIRGIL GOODE AT 65% AND ROMNEY AT 62%. STEIN AND OBAMA WERE BOTH IN THE 30'S.

AND THE REASON I HOLD THE VIEWS I DO, IS THAT LIBERTY IS MY FIRST AND FOREMOST CONCERN. I DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT FIXING THINGS AND TRYING TO MAKE THINGS BETTER, BECAUSE USUALLY THEY ONLY END UP MAKING THINGS WORSE. I WANT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DO WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO DO: PROTECT THE LIBERTY OF THE CITIZENS. THAT'S IT. STOP INTERFERING IN PERSONAL DECISIONS, STOP STEALING FROM SOME TO GIVE TO OTHERS, STOP BANKRUPTING MY STEP-GRANDKIDS. JUST LEAVE US ALONE.

HA!

SAM

16, -3

between libertarian and republican. I think I would have been closer to libertarian, but some of the questions, say labor laws, were lead on questions with no correct answer, so I just said don't know for keeping it out of the equation.

Gary Johnson 90% with Romney at 64% for me.

Weighted Results:
83% Stein and 62% Obama.

America as a whole is finacially Conservative Dems and Socially liberal Republicans.

If we would ever vote the way we actually feel, the Libitarian party would win every single election.

None of us feel like that is a viable strategy, so we just vote against the guy that is less like what we are comfortable with. We don't vote for someone we can believe in, but against a candidate.

Sure there are nut jobs outside of this, but that is America in a nutshell.

-3,+5 weighted, I don't consider the unweighted data to be valid

Barack Obama 80%
Jill Stein 74%
Gary Johnson 37%
Mitt Romney 31%
Virgil Goode 11%

Interesting thing.

81% Green
78% demo
31% Libertarian
27% GOP
7% Con

Here is another test, although it's only between Obama and Romney.

http://www.aljazeera.com/...20121015134525993838.html

Not exactly an accurate gauge of your beliefs in general, but I think interesting when it comes to ONLY Obama OR Romney. Where do you guys rank?

I'm 83.5% Obama. See, it's interesting, because I don't really support Obama at all - I think he's been a fluff president. But between just him and Romney, it seems I see eye-to-eye a bit more with him than I do with Romney, which to be honest, I think is just fine. I'm a bit scared what will happen to America if Romney gets elected. The economy is fluff enough, and I simply don't see how anyone can believe that Romney will make it better.

-9,11
unweighted

-9,11
weighted

i'm not american though, but i just voted for what i would want if i had to live there.

though, i find it the issues at hand in america extremely backward.

Hey TAN, here's another site like the first one you posted, and it has all the candidates.

http://www.isidewith.com/

I landed about 2/3 towards the green party from the dems...

I vote for kronos!

I landed towards the green party (86%) and then the dems.
Top left of the grid which I already knew. That's close to the some form "anarchism" political movement. It's also kind of funny because when I did the Canadian one by vote compass prior to our federal election I was closer to top center than top left. But I guess it's relative too.
"Taxes should be higher on the rich" means something else in the US than in Canada for example because the starting point is different.

Either way I rank highly against social conservatism:P

@Tan: I got 70.9% obama on the al-jazeera thingy. Did you know that a former CBC director is one of the main al-jazeera reporters?:P

Reporter, journalist, correspondent or anchor? There's a difference! Also, based in Qatar? If so, I've probably seen him around.

Unweighted ~11.5,-1.5

Romney - 76%
Johnson (Libertarian) - 72%
Goode (Constitution) - 60%
Obama - 44%
Stein (Green) - 25%


Weighted ~11.5,1.5

Johnson - 75%
Romney - 71%
Goode - 56%
Obama - 47%
Stein - 30%

GJ would be my ideal choice, but I can't have Obama win Indiana again.

confluffed !

I'm not an american

unweighted -10,+10

Obama 64%
Stein 61%
Romney 35%
Johnson 33%
Goode 21%

weighted -8,+11

Stein 63%
Obama 63%
Romney 37%
Johnson 31%
Goode 23%

Evidently Gary Johnson is my man followed by Mitt Romney, both in unweighted and weighted. Not too surprising given I don't fall in line with the party on some issues, particularly the social issues that alight more with libertarians (gay marriage, decriminalizing pot, etc).

Unweighted
Obama 74%
Stein 69%
Johnson 46%
Romney 38%
Goode 18%

Weighted
Obama 75%
Stein 74%
Johnson 46%
Romney 32%
Goode 16%

I was fairly surprised by how close I was to the Green party. I haven't dug too deep into them but maybe I should. Overally I'm pretty set in being a Democrat but I tend to be a little more fiscally conservative and a little more socially liberal.

This post could have been made by me.