Posted by
JAMES T. KANE on Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:10:39 PM
Today I had the opportunity to take the candidate's quiz on The Washington Post's WEB site. It features 25 questions on political issues together with the answers provided by the Republican candidates. For each question, I was able to rank the question in importance to me from "not important" to "very important." I was able to pick the answer that most matches my view on the 25 issues. The trick is that you don't know the candidate you are picking.
I am now and for eight years I have been a supporter of McCain for President even though I do not agree with him on all of the issues. Leadership and character are the reasons to vote for the Arizona Senator. As we all know, Gov. Huckabee is surging in the Iowa polls and America's Mayor is leading in the national polls. I took the issues test and here are my surprising results:
1. Huckabee 4 pts.
2. McCain and Paul 12 pts each.
3. Thompson 13 pts.
4. Rudy 17 pts.
5. Mitt 23 pts.
Since the candidates positions on most issues are similar, I believe that the language employed by Gov. Romney must be closest to the language I associate with being a Republican President. I remember reading about the result of the first Nixon-Kennedy debate. The people who saw the debate on TV said that Kennedy won, the people who listened on the radio said that Nixon won. Try The Washington Post test yourself and see if you are as surprised by your results as I was by mine.