Let's say -- totally hypothetically speaking, of course -- that you
wanted to select a presidential candidate in Tuesday's primary based on
something more than a vague desire for "change" or a preference for
"experience." Something like, ah, issues, say. Well, the EU's here
to help (And why not? The prime-minister model doesn't lend
itself as easily to the distracting politics of personality) with a
fun, 36-question quiz on gut-check topics ranging from gun control to
terrorism/security to health care. At the end of the survey, a chart
positions you on an economic and social axis (I thought perhaps I was
getting more economically conservative in my late 30s, but nope, there
I was in the lefty-left quadrant). According to my results, Barack
Obama should be my candidate if I'm voting on issues, and Huckabee is
policy anathema. You can also select individual issues in the results
phase, in case you care more about the uninsured than the border.
Thanks to the VU Amsterdam for creating this helpful gizmo -- via which
they're no doubt compiling data about the impulsive, erratic
American voting public (they want as many respondents from Texas as
possible) -- perhaps to make a case for kicking us out of the UN.
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