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78% Joe Biden
76% John Edwards
73% Barack Obama
70% Dennis Kucinich
70% Mike Gravel
69% Hillary Clinton
67% Chris Dodd
60% Bill Richardson
46% John McCain
43% Rudy Giuliani
37% Mitt Romney
36% Mike Huckabee
32% Tom Tancredo
27% Fred Thompson
24% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Losers never win!!!

Comments

[kookbox]

I've taken a bunch of these lately. And the results are almost always slightly different (though the #1 is almost always the same). I'd like to spend some time studying the biases of these various quizzes, and whether they're intentional or accidental. There's always a struggle between making a short simple quiz that might not be so finely-focused and a long complicated one that folks might misunderstand or lose interest in, and, besides, many of the people behind these quizzes don't seem to know a lot about survey method. Slanted or unclear phrasing, etc. But maybe this is a rare exception to that rule about malice and ignorance.

I took the Fox-branded one, for example, and it ranked Hillary Clinton much higher in my preferences than I'd've expected. Is that because Fox News is a Republican stalking horse, and they want her to get the Democratic nomination because polls suggest she can't win? Or is it because News Corp. is a major Clinton donor? Anyway. And also:

92% Mike Gravel
89% Dennis Kucinich
85% John Edwards
80% Chris