Time for the 2012 Political Compass check-in! (Join us in GD for the quiz & results!)

[GreenPartyVoter]

What are your numbers and quadrant? http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021113543

[Vincardog]

1. Fix your link

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Ooh, Thanks!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Morning kick

[PayAttentionFool]

4. I make the Dalai Lama Look like a neo-con!

Must be too liberal!!!!

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. LOL I find it odd that some of our most revered "left" icons, along with

the most left-leaning of our presidential candidates, can't hold a candle to some of our DUers.

[PayAttentionFool]

6. Not hard to do if one

Believes in and supports:

A strong Social Safety Net
Regulations on Businesses
A Progressive Tax system
Allowing Adults to do what they want with their body
Public Education
Unions
Drug Legalization

You know traditional Liberal positions, something that is in short supply in the party lately.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yeah, I wish the party was full of Bernie Sanders clones. :^)

[PayAttentionFool]

12. Bernie is about the only one worth a damn in Congress today

Too many are in it for the money and power only.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Or are easily run over by those who do have the money and power.

[Orangepeel]

7. Bullshit on the relationship between this quiz and politician's placement on the chart

I'm not blind to Obama's faults and he is too right and too authoritarian for my preferences, but there is no way that even semi-realistic answers to that quiz would put Obama where they put him.

I answered the way I thought Obama would be likely to answer. I got Economic Left/Right: -1.00 and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79 and that includes "disagree" on personal pot use and "agree" on military action that defies international law being sometimes justified.

I looked for a page that detailed how they answered the questions for each candidate, but I couldn't find one. The only explanation is a listing of some of the worst things he's done and an offensive suggestion that people only voted for him in 2008 because he's black.

The quiz is fun to take, but that chart and the rest of the content of site are bullshit.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I agree that he should be more in the middle. I also think the Green and the Socialist

aren't deep enough into the green quadrant. Unfortunately, he and the others are unlikely to have the time to take the quiz and lay the issue to rest.

But it is still fun to take, and there are other tests out there I will be dredging up because my teen son is into those sorts of things and it's nice to do them with him.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. If life was defined as simply as this vague quiz, we'd have no problems...

But it isn't. Trying to peg someone's ideology based off only a few questions doesn't work. It's too easy. The graph shows why. I'd wager Pres. Obama has far more in common with Rocky Anderson than he does Mitt Romney and yet, they're nowhere near each other.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I would say his dot should be called "The Obama Presidency" rather than his name, because

not everything that has happened has necessarily been his first choice.

[SteveG]

14. still a lefty lib

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08