2016 Presidential Election Thread

Bush usually ends up being my top Republican on these things.

85% Sanders.

Let's see if I can find where I wrote down my scores, or if I can remember them...

Ah, right. If I pick from the full slate of answers but leave all the importance levels at "Somewhat", I get Jeb Bush at 64%, Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul at 60%.
Full slate of answers, adjusting the levels, Rand Paul at 80%, Bernie Sanders at 64%, no one else above 50%.
Answering without clicking More Answers, adjusting sliders, Bernie Sanders at 70%, Rand Paul at 65%, Jeb Bush at 56%, no one else above 50%.

Interesting how things change when you have more options in your answers. Also interesting that I had a lower %age on Marco Rubio than I expected, but perhaps not SO surprising since I get him mixed up with Ted Cruz. Which one's the one that said he started liking country music after 9/11? That's the one I really don't like.

Sanders 84%
Paul 79%
Clinton 72%

I topped out with Marco Rubio 96%. With my preferred candidate Walker 84%.

Sanders 95, Hillary 87, with highest Republican Huckabee (really!) at 55.

I'll try taking the extra questions and 'other'.

Sanders: 99%
Hillary: 87%
Paul: 51%

Sanders 96%, Clinton 91%, highest Republican Paul at 30%. The only Republican showing significant agreement on a major issue is Christie on the environment. Somewhat oddly, Rubio's the one at the very bottom of the list with 1%.

Sanders 94%, Hilary 85%, O'Malley 66%. Closed republican, Paul at 54%. I had no areas of agreement with GOP leaders except immigration, with Trump at 41%. But then, immigration consistently got 'least important' with me. For example, I don't think illegal immigrants should get health care benefits through ACA (but then, they don't), and I don't think we should do a general amnesty - there wasn't a question I saw on path to citizenship, which I support - there should be a way, but you shouldn't get a magical pass to the front of the line because you decided to break the rules.

Anyway, I took all the extra questions to try to get the best results, and no surprise Sanders came in highest for me.

Okay, so here's mine after taking the extra questions:
http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1167242231

There are some odd results in this thing. On most issues, it says that I side most with Sanders, except for foreign policy (Clinton), environment (Walker), immigration (O'Malley), so far so good. Then it gets very strange. On education, I side most with multiple candidates, and not who I would have expected: Paul, Santorum, Cruz, Christie, and Rubio! So what is it that unifies so many Republicans on education that I also happen to consider important? I'm pretty curious, to be honest, because I would not have expected this.

The education questions are particularly bad and compound, and there are only two of them. If you think that most subjects should be taught to national standards but that the whole idea of common core and constant testing is very poorly thought out, none of the choices for answers will make much sense. And, "would you support increased taxes on the rich to reduce interest rates on student loans" is a positively awful question, where none of the site's answers fit at all if you believe that aid should be need based and that grants should largely, mostly, or entirely replace loans.

Estimate: Bernie Sanders Kenner rally brings four times more people than Jindal's
...in Jindal's home state.

Why would anyone in Jindal's home state go to see him? He's there all the time.

FTFY

^If you ever saw how corrupt Louisiana political culture was you'd be trying an exorcism.

Their longest serving governor.

Edwin Edwards- 16 years in office, 8 years in prison.

How corrupt does a powerful politician have to be to end up in prison for 8 years..........

No less corrupt than, but not as clever as, Huey Long.

Yes, they were awkward questions. But I can't figure out how any of the candidate's answers might fit with my own. Actually, yes, I can. 1) I oppose Common Core, likely for different reasons; 2) I oppose taxes to reduce interest rates for the reason you stated and because it isn't necessary (the loans are privately held, regulation can reduce the rates). So, yes, those guys probably answered the same way, but for completely different reasons.

Sanders 96%
Clinton 82%
O'Malley 68%
Paul 52%

From the end of Reconstruction until the early '80s, most of TN's governors wound up in prison for corruption, either while they were still in office, or shortly after they finished their term. We've had one since then who should have wound up in prison, how escaped when half of his staff didn't, I'll never know.

Hah, that's nothing! Three out of three recent Massachusetts House speakers traded the State House for the big house.

Then there was the Reagan administration...

The only New York State Senate Majority leader and the only Assembly Speaker of the past 20 years not to leave office under indictment are the current ones. Five consecutive Senate Majority leaders have left office as crooks. Our last three governors, including Cuomo, are real pieces of work too.

Our current Speaker has just barely managed to escape indictment. It's crazy.

The administration so corrupt that its members were still being indicted 18 years after he left office...

What makes the Reagan administration the least bit responsible for something one of its members did YEARS after leaving office?

Ann Coulter loves her some Donald Trump. http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/26/ann-coulter-trump-could-win-the-election-video/

Don't worry, there were still 138 convictions, indictments and investigations before the crooks left office.