Thursday, August 26, 2004

Politics

I'm going to start off with an interesting website I heard about on a local political radio show. For those of you who don't listen, his name is Peter Werbe and you can check him out here. Also, if you're in the Metro Detroit area, you can listen to him, on Sunday, from 11 p.m. until 1 a.m. (eastern standard time). If you are not local, I've got some good news for you. If you're interested in the show, you can listen to the streaming broadcast here at the aforementioned date and at the aforementioned time.

Okay, on with the interesting website. This particular website (which can be reached by clicking on the title of this post or by clicking here) is "a bi-partisan website that allows you to cast votes on core election issues." In other words, you pick an issue at random, then select the platform you agree with most, then continue on with that process until you have picked all the issues. I have decided to take this voting survey (I guess you would call it that) and then share my results with you. Okay, so here goes:

Issue One: Drugs
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Two: Gay Rights
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Three: Abortion
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Four: Education
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Five: Crime
Agree With: Bush

Issue Six: Technology
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Seven: Why Running for Office
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Eight: Key Issues
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Nine: Rumsfeld
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Ten: Gas Supply
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Eleven: Death Penalty
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twelve: Affirmative Action
Agree With: Bush

Issue Thirteen: Civil Rights
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Fourteen: Foreign Policy
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Fifteen: Jobs
Agree With: Bush

Issue Sixteen: Iraq
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Seventeen: Environment
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Eighteen: Economy
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Nineteen: Homeland Security
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty: Social Security
Agree With: Bush

Issue Twenty-One: Women's Issues
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Two: Healthcare
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Three: Service Record
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Four: Taxes
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Five: Gun Control
Agree With: Bush

Issue Twenty-Six: Global Trade
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Seven: Immigration
Agree With: Bush

Issue Twenty-Eight: Families
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Twenty-Nine: Campaign
Agree With: Kerry

Issue Thirty: National Defense
Agree With: Bush

Issue Thirty-One: Welfare and Poverty
Agree With: Kerry

My Voting Record:
G.W. Bush: 7
J.F. Kerry: 24

Well, let me just say one thing about that voting survey. If you were just a little informed (I consider myself to be middle ground when it comes to the informed department) you would have known which canditate was which after reading each platform. So, that could have lead you to pick your favorite canditate, instead of being honest about it and picking the platform you most agree with. I don't think I did that myself, but maybe subconsciously I did. Anyways, I figured I'd agree with Kerry on a 2:1 ratio, but it looks like that is more like a 3:1 ratio.

I had more to talk about tonight, but it looks like my time has run out. I have class tomorrow at 10 in the morning, so I better get to bed. Good night everyone, and please take that voting survey and post your results as a comment to this post.

2 comments:

  1. I kept thinking, "I think I know what Kerry believes on this issue... or maybe he doesn't really think that way at all".

    You're right though, it is pretty easy to tell which candidate is on which side of the issue.

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  2. 16 Kerry, 15 Bush. Yeah, I'm down the middle, what can I say?

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