lumrant
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Here are the results of the quiz I took on pbs.org with Jeanie to see which Democratic candidates I actually sided with on the various issues.
PBS did a good job of making it blind and randomized, so it seems pretty objective. The drawback, of course, is that so many of the candidates have essentially identical positions on most of the major issues. Jeanie was disappointed by this, but I see it as a positive: I'm free to use more subjective reasons to get behind Dean. I basically like Dean because:
- He seems unusually blunt and free from spin. Not completely without spin, of course, but more straightforward than just about everyone else.
- I strongly believe that you can't beat the right-wing conservatives at their own game, meaning that hate won't get it done and liberal/progressive perspectives need to be embraced and validated. Dean seems to buy into that. So be it if he continues to be compared with McGovern in '72.
- He seems pretty free from dogmatic religious belief.
