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Originally Posted by loquitur
But the problem I had with the quiz is that the questions were "loaded" - they assumed things that they shouldn't necessarily assume - and that the proposed answers often didn't include stuff that matched my view.
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They represented the 'packaged' positions that the issues have been boiled down to. Naturally, it'd be pretty tough to have a multiple-choice quiz with millions of answers to reflect the nuances of opinion that are held individually across the country, but does certainly highlight the fact that political discourse amongst politicians and in the media is ultimately shoehorned for the most part into pre-defined boxes.
Surely, I doubt even the creators of this quiz thought it to be the end-all-be-all of the 2008 race, but I do think that if you are pretty well versed on where you stand and where the candidates stand, you probably shouldn't be blown away by the top five or bottom five of your list. Of course, if there is anyone in there you are shocked about, it might bear taking another look at the person.