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28 January 2004 - 1:42 pm
These days the Internet can do just about everything. Today I took a few online quizzes and I now know the presidential candidate that I should support. And he is either Ralph Nader, Al Sharpton, or Dennis Kucinich. Actually, on the two quizzes I took today, those three names did come up at the top of one or the other, but right beneath them on both quizzes were strong matches to John Kerry and John Edwards. Of course, since these are issue-based quizzes, they didn't ask questions like "Do you want the United States to be the laughingstock of the world?" If they had, my answer would have eliminated Nader and Sharpton and possibly Kucinich. (Although I have a secret desire to see Al Sharpton win some delegates, I know that it's not going to happen and that I should just get over it.) So this leaves me with Kerry and Edwards.
Not sure how to proceed based on the results from the first two quizzes, I took a third. The results of this third quiz galvanized me. I had a 100% match with John Kerry (although Sharpton and Kucinich popped up near the top again). This struck me as a bit odd, because I'm fairly certain that Kerry and I disagree on a few of the issues covered on the quiz. Nevertheless, when I'm directed by an Internet quiz owned by AOL, I follow. So if you'll excuse me, I'll be outside putting Kerry '04 bumper stickers on my car.
Posted by on 28 January 2004 at 1:42 PM
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My results were:
First: Joe Liebermann
Second: The Reverend Al Sharpton (with Kucinich 2nd and Liebermann 8th)
Third: Kerry (with Sharpton 5th and Liebermann 7th).
So apparently once I really agreed with Liebermann, but then I didn't agree with him at all. I think what this is really telling me is to select my candidate via a random number generator, magic 8 ball, or ouija board.
Posted by Chris Hill Festival on 28 January 2004 - 2:39 PM
I fully support your oujia board democracy.
Ouija boards now!
Posted by Charlie on 28 January 2004 - 10:56 PM