Since all those people in Iowa and New Hampshire seem to just have such a darn hard time selecting their candidates until the day of their caucus/primary, it's lucky that the internet has a number of tools you help you sort out the various forms of riff-raff you can vote for.
I took the Washington Post's Candidate Selector, Democratic Edition. It has a horribly clunky interface, and is immensely frustrating in that the pap answers provided by the campaigns often presented no real meaningful distinction between the candidates (hmmm...) Anyway, apparently I should vote for John Edwards:
I guess I'm a sucker for a multi-millionaire waving a neo-populist banner of a new-speak international proletariat, errr, middle class. Problem is, I don't vote for people, ever, who believe the state should murder its own citizens.
Well, actually, all these of those rotten fuckers believe that the government should murder its own citizens.
Never say I'm not an optimist, though: I went ahead and took another candidate selector, at selectsmart.com .
The interface was quite a bit nicer, but the results are extremely suspect. It got correct my likely vote: Dennis Kucinich, but I find it simply bizarre that it claims that Hillary Clinton agrees with me just six percent less than Kucinich. And I'm pretty much positive that I'd rather have Stephen Colbert over Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee, even though Colbert was left in the dust.
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