Bacon Post of the Week

Maybe I'll do this weekly, maybe I'll just do this today.

Bacon Toothpick
Bacon Flowchart
Bacon Salt [this will probably make the list each week]
Bacon Recipes
Kevin Bacon (and six degrees of him)
Jim Gaffigan on Bacon

I don't normally take these kinds of quizzes, but I have no idea who stands where on the issuses. So I was poking around politicalbase.com learning about the candidates and where they stand (and what the issues are), when I noticed a quiz. It turns out I don't have to even think about who I should vote for, algorithms do it for me. They need to fix some of the algorithms though, note the wording on all 6 of the candidates that I do and don't match up with.

Who should I vote for for president in 2008?

You match up well with...

	Barack Obama - 76 match You must be ambitious and idealistic, like Barack Obama. Obama is a liberal democrat who, unlike his rivals, opposed the Iraq war from the start. With only 3 years in the Senate, his inexperience worries some and sometimes reveals itself in the debates, but he also has the charisma and popular support that the others lack.
	Hillary Clinton - 75 match Hillary Clinton is a liberal democrat who is unpopular among conservatives for advocating universal health care, abortion rights, and civil unions. She is resented in the anti-war crowd for having authorized a military strike in Iraq and not apologizing since. People see her as power-hungry and willing to do anything to get to the top, even stay with her unfaithful husband. However, Clinton has 8 years of experience in the White House, 25 years in national politics and is currently serving her second term as a popular New York senator. She knows how to make and deliver policy which puts her ahead of the inexperienced presidential hopefuls.
	Bill Richardson - 70 match You're looking for a moderate Democrat like Bill Richardson. Experienced in state, national, and international politics, Richardson has been a Congressman, an ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, and is now the governor of New Mexico. He is pro-choice, strongly favors rights for the LGBT population, advocates for affirmative action in government contracts, and even championed the idea that Congress should revoke the original authority it gave to go to war with Iraq. Richardson also supports the death penalty and gun ownership rights.

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You don't match up well with...

	Duncan Hunter - 43 match Congratulations! You and Duncan Hunter are socially conservative nativists! Hunter is a conservative Republican Congressman from California who is big on unborn babies but not immigrants. He best known in congress for his prominent role in constructing a 14-mile double fence along the US-Mex border and introducing the Right to Life Act, which would give constitutional rights to anything that develops after the moment of conception. Unlike many Republicans, he opposes free trade because he says it poses a threat to American manufacturing and creates a huge trade deficit. To discourage trade, he has proposed a law that allows American companies to use "exchange-rate manipulation" as an excuse to receive protection under America's trade laws.
	Tom Tancredo - 44 match You are most like Tom Tancredo, who is a presidential candidate is running because of one issue alone: immigration. He has rallied against immigration and doesn't just want to construct fences and laws that keep out foreign workers (legal or not). He also opposes birth-right citizenship and wants to deploy American troops along the US-Mex border. In addition, he has formally called for the elimination of public schools, advocated for bombing Mecca to get back at Islamic terrorists, and resists the President's big-government agenda. You might like him, but his own party thinks he is a disaster- Karl Rove told him that he would never 'darken the doorstep of the White House' again; and Tom DeLay told him that 'you cannot think of making a career in [Congress].'
	John McCain - 48 match As a fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican, McCain is not afraid to align himself with either party on important issues. Republican support dropped due to his progressive stance on immigration and environmental issues and his unwaivering support for the prolonged military presence in Iraq has killed any chance of winning over Democrats. He is a active in exposing corruption and will attack both Republican and Democrat politicians for pork-barrel projects, pitting him against both parties.

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