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hatmandu and friends has certainly fulfilled its stated goal of making me want to find out more. I don't know nearly enough about Kucinich, or indeed Gravel. Who should you vote for?
| Dennis Kucinich |  | 120 | ||
| Mike Gravel |  | 108 | ||
| Barack Obama | | 101 | ||
| John Edwards | | 91 | ||
| Hillary Clinton | | 87 | ||
| Rudy Giuliani | -15 | | ||
| Ron Paul | -27 | | ||
| John McCain | -36 | | ||
| Fred Thompson | -72 | | ||
| Mitt Romney | -117 | | ||
| Duncan Hunter | -132 | | ||
| Mike Huckabee | -138 | |
Your recommendation: Dennis Kucinich
Party: Democratic
Born: 1946, Cleveland, Ohio
Family: Married three times; one daughter
Career: Radio talk-show host, lecturer, consultant
Political career: Cleveland City Council (1969); Mayor of Cleveland (1977-79); Incumbent Member of the US House of Representatives from Ohio's 10th district
Hot topic: Federally funded healthcare to all citizens
Did you know? When Kucinich refused to sell Muni Light, Cleveland's publicly owned electric utility, the Cleveland mafia put a hit on him. A hitman from Maryland planned to shoot him in the head during the Columbus Day Parade, but the plot fell apart when Kucinich was hospitalized and missed the event.
Supported by: Viggo Mortensen, Sean Penn
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There are Obama posters popping up in Oxford already and it isn't even our election. Last night Dan and I found ourselves watching The Manchurian Candidate - the remake, that is - which I'd somehow thought was a running-and-shouting-and-exploding standard thriller. Instead it was a paranoia-filled conspiracy theory drama happening around a US election, clearly scripted by people who'd watched an awful lot of The West Wing. All the fake news footage with its clunky graphic design took me back to our all-night election party of 2004. Hey, party round mine this November! With donuts! And hopefully this one won't end in despair!
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Given that this quiz is entitled "Who Should You Vote For?" the Democrat Electability question could be reworded as "I'm happy for the Republicans to win the election because I was too idealistic to vote tactically". And then that question should be weighted by comparing your other answers to the leading Republican candidates and scaling up accordingly. It would end up being the only question that matters!
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Meanwhile, you're getting election posters in Oxford because there are expatriate American voters resident in Oxford. One of the highest civilian concentrations outside London. Unlike the bankers here in London, they tend to be politically-engaged... Although, being academics, somewhat liberal-leaning.
Also, the parties will spend a great deal on campaigning with the Rhodes scholars and may even go to the lengths of canvassing them individually: these people are an important constituency of future opinion-formers. Those that aren't already party members and attached to one of the candidates' personal retinues, of course: Rhodes scholars tend to be very, very politically engaged. Outside that meritocratic elite, the American students we see in Oxford are likely to come from backgrounds so priveleged as to be effectively an aristocracy; a vote's a vote, and getting in there early may well secure a lifetime of substantial campaign donations.
Then there's the tourists: never give 'em a moment's peace - visiting voters can still be bombarded with campaign material.
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You expected: Barack Obama
Your recommendation: Barack Obama
Party: Democratic
Born: 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii
Family: wife and two daughters
Career: Business International Corporation; NYPIRG; attorney and constitutional law lecturer
Political career: Member of the Illinois State Senate from the 13th district, 1997-2004. Incumbent Junior Senator from Illinois since 2005
Hot topic: Universal healthcare
Did you know? He is the only African American currently serving in the US Senate
Supported by: Oprah Winfrey, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Ed Norton, Jennifer Aniston, Zach Braff, John Cleese, Leonard Nimoy and Brooke Shields
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"The nominee should be a person of colour"
Strongly disagree / Disagree / Neutral / Agree / Strongly agree
Now, I would tick strongly disagree here because I don't think there should be any requirement or advantage for a nominee to be black but that does not imply that I favour a non-black person to be a nominee because of their skin colour nor does it mean that I would rather not see a black person be a nominee. It just means I very much disagree with the assertion that a nominee should have a particular skin colour, in this case black.
Cake or death?
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