How to align self with candidate? dont know who is best for my views!?

Question

if only it was as easy as picking one party or the other, but not wanting to limit myself to one groups thoughts, i cant do that. I am not registered as a democrat OR republican, but independant. Does anyone know a place that i can figure out exactly which candidate matches most of my views?

Its tough because i am against most of the social ideas of the democratic party (im against welfare and i dont think gays have the right to marriage) but im also against certain things republicans tend to support (war, centralized government, more federal power)

i guess what im asking is for the easy way to the answer... instead of having to navigate the internet and read from each one, no one has compiled a test or quiz i could take and it would answer for me? i need a definitive way to know

Answer 1

check out this link http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

Answer 2

A great place to begin is the Democratic party web site and the Republican party web site.

I'm now a liberal democrat. I'm not for welfare. You need to dig deeper. Why has welfare come into existence? What purpose does it serve? You need to start asking the right questions so you can try to find the right answers. No one wants to support a do nothing person. Those people irritate me. I live in Massachusetts and I've seen my share. I've also seen people that have received government assistance in one way or another and they have another set of problems. Try reasoning with them? Usually you can't. Do you want to live in a civilized society?

Each candidate has a web site. Visit. See what they say. There are lots of stories about each of the candidates. Read as many as you can. Vote with your conscience but be careful of the assumptions you make. Question them and try to find answers. Are your assumptions correct? What do you have to back it up? Pay attention to the world around you. What is happening? It's a lot of work to find a candidate to throw your support behind.

I've chosen Dennis Kucinich. I still try to keep up with the other candidates. I will until election day, until I've voted.
It's just how it goes.

I'm on the fence about the gay marriage issue. But I have to say that it's legal in MA and all is fine. I haven't seen any problems. I know gay people and they are good people. I don't have any problems. The ones I've met and befriended were thoughtful, considerate, and intelligent. I have met one that is none of those things but there are always bad apples. It doesn't matter what orientation they are.

Answer 3

Goggle the name of each candidate that you feel would be good if voted in or all of them for that matter. Read the platform and make a judgment to how much ability that the candidate has to implement that platform. The people that have the best of intentions do not have political power when elected. The person you pick could turn out to be just like al the other canidates and never impliment any of his platform. The canidates have the potentual to be big fat liars.

Answer 4

The other day I saw a segment on TV about a website that asks several questions and then depending on how you answer them they tell you which candidate shares your views. I don't know why dems and reps don't have it right on their websites what they support, I know the green party does, so it's right there in black and white, I've tried to find this about the most popular parties and it's not that easy and their actions don't prove anyhthing but that they are all a bunch of liars and they even lie about their lies!!!

Answer 5

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

Check out Ron Paul, btw. He's nominally a Republican.

Oh and fyi, Republicans are *theoretically* opposed to federal power; it's the Democrats who support bigger government. In practice, though, they're both identical.

And also fyi, you're a bigot. If gay people were the majority and they wouldn't allow heterosexual marriage, wouldn't that piss you off a bit?

Answer 6

Watch Hannity and Colmes and you will see they are like night and day, yet have some (few) same stances.