Who shares your views?

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You can have some fun with this site's political questionnaires. Fill one out and have your views compared to the major and minor parties, 2008 candidates (Democrat and Republican) or a list of political leaders.

My responses vs. the parties were not too surprising: Constitution 60%, Republican (where I have been most of my life) 55%, and Libertarian (where I was briefly in the 70s) 35%. Ranging from 25% down to 10% were, in order, Democrat, Natural Law, Socialist, and Green.

For those who insist, in George Wallace's famous phrase, that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between the major parties," this could be an eye opener.

Among their list of "political leaders," my responses were a 63% match to Pat Buchanan, 60% to Alan Keyes, 53% to Steve Forbes, and 50% to both John Ashcroft and (surprise!) George W. Bush. At the bottom of the list (all under 20%) were Hillary Clinton, Jesse Ventura, and Bill Clinton.

This exercise has its limits, though. Among the 2008 candidates, my closest match was Duncan Hunter who is my fourth choice at this stage while my favorite, Jim Gilmore, ranked fourth in matching my views.