Candidate Match Game

The best paper in the world, USA Today, features an online candidate match game that I found to be both deeply flawed and quite entertaining.

I'm sure you'll all be surprised to learn that, after playing with the sliding scales, my list looks a little something like this:

1) Dennis Kucinich - As I expected, he totally ran away with it. Politically, I align most closely with a non-cheese-eating, UFO-viewing, elf-looking dude with the really hot wife.

2) Mike Gravel - He was a distant second. If you consider all the other candidates tied for first, he would be a distant second in general.

3) Barack Obama/John Edwards/Bill Richardson - My third place depends on the slides and which issues I'm feeling most strongly about in the moment. Without sliding, it's Bill.

If you don't care that people know where you stand on the political spectrum, feel free to share your results in the comments section of this posting. And remember, dear B&E readers, primaries offer you the one opportunity to vote for the candidate you align with most closely. Assuming they're still on the ballots by the time you vote.