Should You Vote in the Next Election?

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08 Mar 2007, 1:01 pm

Not perfect, biased towards the US, but interesting....

Should You Vote in the Next Election?

You scored 350 out of 350 possible points, or 100.00%

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Not only should you vote, you should consider a career in politics.

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08 Mar 2007, 1:20 pm

Got just over half of them right. It's too biased toward the US as a lot of the ones I didn't get are related to American politics. How many people in Britain are going to know who Mitch McConnell, Tony Snow or John Boehner is?

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08 Mar 2007, 1:34 pm

It may be intended for a U.S. audience.

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08 Mar 2007, 3:06 pm

I got 343. Roberts and Boehner almost tripped me up, and I just realized that, until I took this, I had never actually seen a picture of Nouri al-Maliki.

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08 Mar 2007, 3:48 pm

I got an F with 33.71% right.

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08 Mar 2007, 4:28 pm

John Roberts has both a less distinctive name and is less distinctive looking then the late Chief Justice Rehnquist. He's sort of like Joe Averageman.

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08 Mar 2007, 6:19 pm

Yeah, we may as well have a Chief Justice named John Q. Public.

The only question I actually got wrong was when I said that Maliki Faucet was the President of Cuba, not the PM of Iraq. :oops:

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08 Mar 2007, 6:37 pm

318 out of 350. I probably need to review people more, I tend to focus more on knowing about the issues that interest me than about the people doing stuff.

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08 Mar 2007, 7:44 pm

I got an F, 58%. But since this test was heavily biased towards US politics, and I live in Canada, all this means is that I shouldn't vote in the next US election. :lol:

BTW, that picture of Kim-Jong Il looks like a woman in the accounting department where I work... and that picture of Michael Moore looks like someone who you would want to keep your kids away from. (For reasons that have nothing to do with his films or his politics.)

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08 Mar 2007, 8:19 pm

Xenon wrote:

I got an F, 58%. But since this test was heavily biased towards US politics, and I live in Canada, all this means is that I shouldn't vote in the next US election. :lol:

BTW, that picture of Kim-Jong Il looks like a woman in the accounting department where I work... and that picture of Michael Moore looks like someone who you would want to keep your kids away from. (For reasons that have nothing to do with his films or his politics.)

You are probably more qualified than much of the US electorate.

If I had kids, I would keep them away from Michael Moore, too. He looks like he'd eat them.

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08 Mar 2007, 10:28 pm

I got 319 out of 350 or 91%
I flubbed on the pic of Ban Ki-moon & Ehud Olmert.

FYI, the pic of Laura Bush gives one the impression that one should keep kids away from her, same with the pic of Michael Moore. He would probably eat them.

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08 Mar 2007, 10:47 pm

You scored 328 out of 350 possible points, or 93.71%

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You should definitely vote.

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I'm in Texas which will certainly vote Republican in a landslide so no point voting no matter what my choice would be. I used to vote in every single election the government had at every level. But I doubt I will ever vote again. I stopped being obsessed with politics 10 years ago! Yes JimServo And Werbert one day you may develop a new obsession and be free of the pain of politics!

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08 Mar 2007, 11:44 pm

TheMachine1 wrote:

Politics was a lot more fun when the Republicans were in control and I could enjoy my frequent complaints about all the things they did wrong. Now if something goes wrong, I've gotta blame the Democrats.

Of course, I could also blame George W. Bush, but that's like getting mad at a baby for soiling his diaper. He doesn't know any better.

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09 Mar 2007, 12:04 am

I read the news, not watch it, so I have no idea what any of these guys look like.

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09 Mar 2007, 12:10 am

ahayes wrote:

I read the news, not watch it, so I have no idea what any of these guys look like.

The same with me here to a great extent as I get much of my news from blogs, other internet news sources and possibly the Wall Street newspaper which never has photographs of the figures that they speak of. Not only that but I normally focus on the economic news when I look at the news as most of the blogs I read are by economists and the Wall Street Journal is notably mostly a business news paper.

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09 Mar 2007, 12:20 am

What on earth do my capacity to recognize Rush Limbaugh or Paris Hilton have to do with whether I should vote or not?

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