Daily Diversion - AOL's President Match

Wednesday, February 11 2004 @ 04:22 AM EST

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

In an earlier thread Gitz mentioned the current U.S. Democratic Primaries. As a former resident of the United States and someone who has to write on the U.S. economy, I've been following the process closely. So I was quite interested when I learned about AOL's President Match.

The most interesting feature is the Q&A where you can "step through our question-and-answer guide and we'll rank the candidates for you". I decided to try it out, and I was quite surprised by my results which ranked how well the different candidates met my answers:

Sharpton: 100%
Kerry: 96%
Dean: 95%
Kucinich: 94%
Clark: 93%
Edwards: 84%
Bush: 55%

The fact that all of the Democratic hopefuls ranked ahead of Bush didn't surprise me at all; I'm no big fan of Dubya or his policies. But Al Sharpton?!? Interesting.

The funny thing is, I've been supporting Edwards, who finished last on my list of Democrats. I still think he has a better chance of knocking off Bush than a New England Democrat like Kerry or Dean.

So what's your list?

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