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DFLer4edu Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 12:48 AM
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Political Compass:Where does your needle point?
Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 01:27 AM by DFLer4edu
I think a lot of you have done this before. I would be interested to see where DUers fall on this. If you've never heard of it, it is exactly what it sounds like, a political compass. Click on the link to get a further explanation and to take the test.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/
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DFLer4edu Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 12:50 AM
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1. Economic Left/Right: -5.25; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 12:53 AM
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2. Way to the left and deep in the Libertarian.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 12:54 AM
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3. Libertarian left.
My exact scores never match up, but they're always in the libertarian left quadrant.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:10 AM
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4. 180 DUers answered in July 2003 (I'm about -7, -6)
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DFLer4edu Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:19 AM
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7. This poll is a push poll
Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 01:21 AM by DFLer4edu
Above it, we're shown where world leaders stand by a graph. The vast majority didn't take the test. They just voted as far as they could in the exact opposite direction of Bush.

btw, I can't make a poll
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tulsakatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:18 AM
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6. Economic Left/Right: -6.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13
Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 01:48 AM by tulsakatz
thanks for the link! I took this test a few yrs ago and at that time, I was left of center.

Now it looks like I've moved further to the left.


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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:35 AM
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8. I'm miffed with politicalcompass.org; they ranked me -10/-10
I am not an anarchist. I am not a Marxist. Yet they rank me "off the scale" on both scales. This is blatant right-wing bias. I am not an extremist. The scale is biased to the right and ranks me unfairly.
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DFLer4edu Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:46 AM
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10. Did you try and pick the anwsers that would be interperted as liberal?
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:59 AM
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15. no, their line of questioning was all black/white issues
I expect it has something to do with strong agree/disagree for every question.

They didn't ask any questions I thought had gray areas.
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tmorelli415 Donating Member (268 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:45 AM
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9. Economic left/right -4.63; Social libertarian/authoritarian -3.62
Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 01:46 AM by tmorelli415
Very cool test. I've never seen it before. Thanks for posting!
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:46 AM
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11. There's another thread on this.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:52 AM
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12. If I am readding it right
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56
I am nelson mandella??? My eyes are bad but that cant be because I will never personally hold a gun.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:54 AM
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13. Economic Left/Right: -4.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97
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BBradley Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 01:58 AM
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14. -9, -9
I get thereabouts almost every time.
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bdot Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 02:40 AM
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16. In the ever flawed political compass,
my score this time is Economic Left/Right: -6.00 / Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.23
it changes every time I take it do to a major flaw in their survey.
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