Mid-Terms Under Two Weeks Away

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**Dreadclaw69**

So which party most closely matches your views?

http://www.isidewith.com/

**Ouze**

This is sort of a dupe, but not really?

If I might make a humble suggestion, you should define the goal of the thread a bit more tightly - as in major, third-party-generated midterm updates in that thread, and strictly personal ideas and discussion here? Still some overlap but enough to be distinct from just having 2 "general purpose" midterm discussion threads.

I gotta run in a minute but I'll post mine when I get home, I tend to side with the Green Party despite the fact my interest in environmental issues is virtually nonexistent. I just have a good match on a lot of their other stuff.

**Dreadclaw69**

That was my quandary. Whembly's thread is more discussion about the issues affecting the mid-terms. This is more about how the members relate to their local political scene

**juraigamer**

That website was interesting. I made my decisions months ago, but this just goes to show you how messed up our political system is. I was appalled at some of the choices.

**whembly**

No surprise here...
http://www.isidewith.com/results/686787482

**Da Boss**

http://www.isidewith.com/results/686795195

I picked New York as my state, just because if I was ever to try to move to the US, that'd probably be where I'd end up.
96% agreement with the greens.

**d-usa**

Not surprised:

**Co'tor Shas**

Hey, what do you know. I've always liked the green party.

Interestingly enough, this will be my first time voting, so that' fun.

**sparkywtf**

Most with Republicans, Conservative (93% each), Constitution (91%) and Libertarian (78%). Democrats (44%)

Decent poll, but over simplifies a lot of the issues, which makes it difficult to answer yes or no.

**Da Boss**

Yeah, I found that to be a problem. And obviously as a foreigner, my views on foreign policy (spying on allies and all that) are a bit biased

**Dreadclaw69**

I found that it was interesting to compare the results from the link in the OP with http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

When I took this test I came across only slightly right of center. But the test in the OP has me;
93% Constitutionalist
95% conservative
77% libertarian
32% liberal
So I'm taking it that the variation comes from the stances of your local politicians

**dogma**

There were way too many leading questions in the "Choose another stance." section, though I'm not sure if that is a problem with the quiz or the country. Additionally, the quiz often chose your stance for you as, apparently, being pro-choice entails a belief that states should be left to decide whether or not abortion is legal.