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Another political orientation quiz

Since people were asking for a less US-centric political test I tried to find one. The one at The Political Compass seems to fit the bill pretty well. The results aren't a simple single number, instead they're plotted on an x/y graph.
Economic issues are the X axis liberal being the negative, conservative being positive.
Social issues are the Y axis, again, liberal being negative, conservative positive.

My score was Economic: -7.75 Social -6.82

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Permalink Reply by vandrerol on June 15, 2009 at 10:43pm

Ack! It turns out I'm both a hippie and a commie.
Economic: -8.62 Social -8.21
I feel dirty.

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Permalink Reply by Gecko, Seth...brother of Richie! on June 15, 2009 at 11:03pm

Ditto, I'm close to Gandhi. Not crazy bout that. Couldn'T we just say I'm close to Gene Roddenberry, or Carl Sagan!!??

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Permalink Reply by El Solo Lobo on June 16, 2009 at 12:39am

Wow, says I'm way left and below Nelson Mandela and Dalia Lama. I'm at -8.00 and -6.82

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on June 16, 2009 at 1:09am

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

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Permalink Reply by vandrerol on June 16, 2009 at 7:06pm

Phew, I'm not the craziest one around here.

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on June 17, 2009 at 11:18pm

I'm bilingually sticking my tongue out at you.

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on June 16, 2009 at 2:41am

Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this.
And wow. You guys are all so far left...

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Permalink Reply by PigDiesel on June 16, 2009 at 3:39am

My score is, Economic: -4.75
Social: -2.56
Not sure if I'm left wing enough for here. :)

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Permalink Reply by Keia on June 16, 2009 at 10:58am

My score: Economic -4.12 Social -7.59

If I trust these tests, they show I am more of a right winger than I realized!

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Permalink Reply by Joey on June 16, 2009 at 11:48am

Nah, negatives mean you're going to the left. ;)
Practically no politician in the US is even close to zero.
Democratic politicians are just less far to the right than Republicans. Both parties fall to the right of center.

They explain some of the shortcomings of the test, and where the politicians from the 2008 elections fell here.
None of these are terribly accurate, but the results can be fun.

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Permalink Reply by merkin muffley on June 17, 2009 at 2:21pm

I don't know, they seem to be accurate. The United States has moved far to the right over the last thirty years. The policies Obama is proposing, like health care, would have been solidly Republican ones in the sixties or seventies.