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Bush - 100%
Edwards - 98%
Kerry - 94%
Kucinich - 90%
Sharpton - 84%
Upon closer inspection, however, I have concluded that this program is quite frankly broken (unless you fit into a highly predictable cookie-cutter ideology). I took the time to manually tally up the issues upon which I agreed with each candidate, giving percentages weighted based upon how closely the candidate's opinion matched my own, e.g. 100% for a perfect match, 75% for a close match, down to 0% for a complete opposite. The results were unsurprising to me:
Edwards - 54%
Kerry - 54%
Kucinich - 50%
Bush - 49%
Sharpton - 44%
This, however, makes me wonder where this dubious program got the idea that Bush was a 100% match with me, given that we disagree more often than we agree. The other natural conclusion is that none of these candidates would adequately represent me - but of course I already knew that.
Although one might say that all these online tests are meaningless, this one seems particularly so.
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