The Smartselect website will ask you a series of questions relating to your views on various issues, as well as how strongly you feel about that issue (for example, you may be opposed to gun control, but you don’t care about that issue as strongly as you do, say, the Iraq War issue).
It then matches your positions with those of the candidates, both Republican and Democrat (even including the satire candidate, Steven Colbert).
Not surprisingly, I’m an Obama man, although I’m somewhat surprised that John Edwards scored comparatively low for me.
1. | Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) | |
2. | Barack Obama (89%)Information link | |
3. | Joseph Biden (85%)Information link | |
4. | Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (84%)Information link | |
5. | Hillary Clinton (83%)Information link | |
6. | Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (83%)Information link | |
7. | Dennis Kucinich (82%)Information link | |
8. | Al Gore (not announced) (81%)Information link | |
9. | Christopher Dodd (78%)Information link | |
10. | Bill Richardson (76%)Information link | |
11. | John Edwards (76%)Information link | |
12. | Michael Bloomberg (says he will not run) (74%)Information link | |
13. | Mike Gravel (62%)Information link | |
14. | Ron Paul (52%)Information link | |
15. | Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (48%)Information link | |
16. | Elaine Brown (44%)Information link | |
17. | Mike Huckabee (37%)Information link | |
18. | John McCain (36%)Information link | |
19. | Tommy Thompson (withdrawn, endorsed Giuliani) (32%)Information link | |
20. | Rudolph Giuliani (31%)Information link | |
21. | Newt Gingrich (says he will not run) (26%)Information link | |
22. | Chuck Hagel (not running) (25%)Information link | |
23. | Mitt Romney (24%)Information link | |
24. | Alan Keyes (24%)Information link | |
25. | Sam Brownback (withdrawn, endorsed McCain) (21%)Information link | |
26. | Fred Thompson (20%)Information link | |
27. | Tom Tancredo (15%)Information link | |
28. | Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (9%)Information link | |
29. | Stephen Colbert (campaign ended) (8%)Information link | |
30. | Duncan Hunter (8%)Information link |
Have at it….