So my sis­ter and I were talk­ing about pol­i­tics, and she said that she needed to do some research to find out who she should vote for, and that she wished that there was just some web­site with a big chart that would com­pare all the can­di­dates for her.

I pointed her to the Polit­i­cal Phi­los­o­phy Quiz, which ranks you on four dif­fer­ent dimen­sions of polit­i­cal thought — pro­gres­sive vs. con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues, pure cap­i­tal­ist vs. social cap­i­tal­ist, lib­er­tar­ian vs. author­i­tar­ian, and paci­fist vs. mil­i­tarist. Then, you can take your scores for all four dimen­sions and fig­ure out which can­di­date for the ’08 elec­tion is most sim­i­lar to your own views.

Despite the fact that she claims to be Repub­li­can (pos­si­bly because our par­ents are), Dong Ha scored as a Demo­c­rat on the quiz; she got 6÷9÷6÷9 on the four dimen­sions. Fur­ther­more, she had a four-​way tie for her most com­pat­i­ble can­di­date — it was between Hillary Clin­ton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, and John McCain. She says she will now vote for McCain, because he’s the only Repub­li­can on that list. We’ll see if it makes it past the pri­maries, though… right now, he’s polling at about 12%.

Oh, and if you were curi­ous about how I did in the quiz… I got Lib­er­tar­ian (9÷6÷1÷0), and my most com­pat­i­ble can­di­date was actu­ally a three-​way tie between Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Mike Gravel. Ron Paul was my 4^th choice.

How are you guys sup­posed to vote?