Candidate Calculator

With 2008 presidential primaries heating up, candidate calculators have become more and more popular. What's a "Candidate Calculator", it is an online quiz that asks you to answer questions in order to find the 2008 presidential candidate that best aligns with your beliefs.

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Which Democratic candidate most closely matches your own views on key political issues?

262 votes so far

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Yes, I am putting my support behind one candidate

74%

No, I don't really like any of the presidential candidates

26%

Is there at least 1 candidate that you are personally excited about?

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Yes, I am putting my support behind one candidate

38%

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Which GOP candidate most closely matches your own views on key political issues?

68 votes so far

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Mike Huckabee

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Recount

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I caught “Recount” while surfing through the channels on the television. It’s a fictionalized recounting—no pun intended—of the debacle of the 2000 presidential election. I remember that it was first election that I was legally able to vote for and I thought, “Is this what elections are like?” Every knows the story of the Florida recount being challenged by the Democrats and the Republicans. This movie is focusing more on the Liberal side of it. I have to say that it was funny. Laura Dern as Katharine Harris and Dennis Leary made this movie. I loved them. Spacey and Wilkinson were good, too. I ... Read Full Story

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Another candidate quiz

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I always take these with a grain of salt, because you can not really get a good informed decision on moat of the questions, but they are pretty fun. H/T to Blonde Sagacity 87% Mitt Romney 85% John McCain 82% Fred Thompson 76% Tom Tancredo 74% Mike Huckabee 71% Rudy Giuliani 58% Ron Paul 43% Bill Richardson 38% Hillary Clinton 34% Barack Obama 34% Joe Biden 33% John Edwards 33% Chris Dodd 22% Mike Gravel 19% Dennis Kucinich 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz Read Full Story

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McCain’s Campaign Taking A Nasty Turn, Says David Plouffe, Obama’s Campaign Manager

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Browse > Home / GOOGLE NEWS , PRESS RELEASE , Politics / McCain’s Campaign Taking A Nasty Turn, Says David Plouffe, Obama’s Campaign Manager August 1, 2008 WASHINGTON- DC (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 1, 2008 - As we face the fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I want you to know what we are up against.Â Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads. This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack’s energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process. Watchdogs in the media are ... Read Full Story

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Poll Shows that McCain’s Attack May be Working Obama’s Popularity Slipping

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Browse > Home / BREAKING NEWS , PRESS RELEASE / Poll Shows that McCain’s Attack May be Working Obama’s Popularity Slipping August 4, 2008 WASHINGTON(RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 4, 2008- - Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain ) addresses supporters during a campaign stop at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 16, 2008. McCain, who had vowed to avoid the kind of negative tactics that were ... Read Full Story

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Handwriting of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama

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Experts see telltale markings of personality in penmanship samples from the presidential candidates. At our search firm we have been using handwriting analysis for years. I was surprised when I saw my own analysis. It was as if I told the person about myself. There is a lot of truth in these handwriting tests. read more | digg story This entry was written by Orrick Nepomuceno and posted on and filed under Uncategorized . Bookmark the permalink . Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post . Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL . Read Full Story

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Obama may back taxing health benefits

The Obama administration may support a move to tax employee health benefits as a way to finance an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, sources say.Support for the idea would represent a turnabout for President Barack Obama, who last year criticized Republican presidential nominee Sen. John...

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Barack Obama may delay signing up to Copenhagen climate change deal

Patrick Wintour, The Guardian - published under license by, BusinessGreen , Thursday 26 March 2009 at 11:09:00 Senior figures warn that the president may need at least another six months to win domestic support for any proposal Barack Obama may be forced to delay signing up to a new international...

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Election Matters blog: Koschnick, Fernandez appear with Joe the Plumber

Remember John McCain's pal "Joe the Plumber," the Ohio Republican who challenged Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on tax issues and then started showing up at rallies for Republicans McCain and Sarah Palin? Well, Joe came to Wisconsin on Saturday for a "Defending the American Dream...

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Obama battles vampires for Galaxy prize

Can Barack Obama see off a teen vampire queen and a Booker-winner as successfully as he trounced John McCain? The newly elected US president is up for author of the year in the Galaxy British Book Awards for his political memoir The Audacity of Hope, alongside Stephanie Meyer's conclusion to her...

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John McCain, Joe Lieberman

In this Sunday Feb. 3, 2008 picture, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., presidential hopeful stands next to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., during a rally at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Lieberman has changed his tune on Obama. After campaigning for Republican John McCain in 2008 and...

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