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The Daily Orange bring undecided voters a last minute quiz to help pick a candidate
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Posted: 11/4/08, 1:37 AM EST Section: Feature
Still don't know who to vote for? Well, Election Day is upon us and it's down to the wire to make the choice before heading to the polls. To simplify things, the Daily Orange Feature staff has created a personality quiz to help undecided voters chose between the two major candidates, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). These questions represent the major issues under scrutiny. Each answer is worth a certain number of points. Check the point values for your answers to decide which way you lean at the bottom of the page.
1. Your local high school's textbooks are from the 19th century. They need to be updated, but the school doesn't have the money. Do you:
A. Say learning from 19th century is good for the students.
B. Collect money privately from other people to help the school.
C. Take a little bit from every person in the neighborhood to help the school.
2. You are at a party on Euclid Avenue with a group of friends. As you leave, you see that your friend starts to fight with another person leaving the same party. Do you:
A. Bring your friends over to the fight - the more, the better.
B. Try to get your friend away from the other person.
C. Add Jell-O and videotape it.
3. Your grandpa is getting old. He's trying to build a wheelchair ramp for his front porch, but he can't afford it. You'd spot him the cash, but you just bought a new stereo, so you suggest:
A. That he use the money he's saved from his retirement to buy the ramp, even if he might not be able to pay the rent on his house next month.
B. That he find the fountain of youth and learn how to walk again.
C. That he ask each member in his town to give him a dollar or two for the ramp.
4. Your puppy is very sick. You can't take him to the vet because you're in college and don't make much (if any) money to cover the bill. You wish there were a system in place in which:
A. Everyone helped you pay for most of the expenses and you pay the rest yourself every time it's sick.
B. You could get $150 from your neighbors and pay the rest yourself every year to cover all puppy health fees.
C. You cure it with butterflies and rainbows.
5. Your friends Jake and Jane each have 25 bags of Halloween candy, but most of your other friends have between three and seven bags of candy and could use some more. To work the situation out, would you:
A. Allow Jake and Jane to keep most of their candy, expecting that they will share as they see fit.
B. Take some of Jake and Jane's candy and share it with the others.
C. Steal everyone's 100 Grand bars for yourself.
6. A group of people without tickets who have never heard a Jay-Z song before are sneaking into his sold-out concert. In order to curb the amount of non-fans getting into the stadium you:
A. Cancel the concert and throw everyone out.
B. Beef up security, let them into the concert but teach them the lyrics if they want to participate.
C. Beef up security and let them into the concert.
7. Erica wants to gain membership into a country club that currently happens to be all male. When she turns in her application do you:
A. Make it a rule that women aren't allowed in the club and tear Erica's application in half.
B. Give Erica full membership rights but not call her a real member or give her an official card.
C. Let the specific departments of the country club decide whether or not Erica can use their facilities.
8. Your friend really hates college - the lack of sleep, sickness and depression. She wants to leave, so you suggest she:
A. Burn down the school.
B. Quit; if she's unhappy and it's going to ruin her life, she has the right to quit.
C. Stick it out; she got herself into it and education is too valuable to waste.
1) A-0, B-1, C-2: 2)A-1, B-2, C-0: 3) A-1, B-0, C-2: 4)A-2, B-1, C-0: 5)A-1, B-2, C-0:
6) A-0, B-1, C-2: 7) A-0, B-2, C-1: 8)A-0, B-2, C-1
If you scored mostly 1s, you may consider voting for John McCain. McCain (R-Ariz.) believes in keeping taxes low, so that American workers keep more of their wages. He recommends lowering taxes on big businesses to encourage them to stay in the United States and offering refundable tax credits to individuals and families for healthcare. He says he will not seek a constitutional ban on abortion or gay marriage. He opposes abortion rights and leaves the decision on gay marriage up to the individual states.
If you scored mostly 2s you should probably consider voting for Sen. Barack Obama One of Obama's (D-Ill.) points highlights the issue of distributing wealth; taking a little bit from each person and giving it back to the greater community. Particularly concerning health care, Obama says that he will implement a system that allows people from middle or lower-income families to afford health care, which will be partially paid for by the government. Obama also supports civil unions for same-sex couples, abortion rights and tax breaks for people in middle and lower income brackets. He also has agreed to end the war in Iraq if elected, and strongly supports revisions in the public education system.
If you scored mostly 0s, then you should consider giving up on the election altogether. If you honestly believe rainbows and puppies will solve the health care crisis, then we'd prefer if you didn't show up to the polls today. So if you think Jell-O will solve the Iraq War or that the elderly's answer to social security should be the fountain of youth, just forget about the election just like how you forgot to research it. Do all sides a favor - sleep in.
1. Your local high school's textbooks are from the 19th century. They need to be updated, but the school doesn't have the money. Do you:
A. Say learning from 19th century is good for the students.
B. Collect money privately from other people to help the school.
C. Take a little bit from every person in the neighborhood to help the school.
2. You are at a party on Euclid Avenue with a group of friends. As you leave, you see that your friend starts to fight with another person leaving the same party. Do you:
A. Bring your friends over to the fight - the more, the better.
B. Try to get your friend away from the other person.
C. Add Jell-O and videotape it.
3. Your grandpa is getting old. He's trying to build a wheelchair ramp for his front porch, but he can't afford it. You'd spot him the cash, but you just bought a new stereo, so you suggest:
A. That he use the money he's saved from his retirement to buy the ramp, even if he might not be able to pay the rent on his house next month.
B. That he find the fountain of youth and learn how to walk again.
C. That he ask each member in his town to give him a dollar or two for the ramp.
4. Your puppy is very sick. You can't take him to the vet because you're in college and don't make much (if any) money to cover the bill. You wish there were a system in place in which:
A. Everyone helped you pay for most of the expenses and you pay the rest yourself every time it's sick.
B. You could get $150 from your neighbors and pay the rest yourself every year to cover all puppy health fees.
C. You cure it with butterflies and rainbows.
5. Your friends Jake and Jane each have 25 bags of Halloween candy, but most of your other friends have between three and seven bags of candy and could use some more. To work the situation out, would you:
A. Allow Jake and Jane to keep most of their candy, expecting that they will share as they see fit.
B. Take some of Jake and Jane's candy and share it with the others.
C. Steal everyone's 100 Grand bars for yourself.
6. A group of people without tickets who have never heard a Jay-Z song before are sneaking into his sold-out concert. In order to curb the amount of non-fans getting into the stadium you:
A. Cancel the concert and throw everyone out.
B. Beef up security, let them into the concert but teach them the lyrics if they want to participate.
C. Beef up security and let them into the concert.
7. Erica wants to gain membership into a country club that currently happens to be all male. When she turns in her application do you:
A. Make it a rule that women aren't allowed in the club and tear Erica's application in half.
B. Give Erica full membership rights but not call her a real member or give her an official card.
C. Let the specific departments of the country club decide whether or not Erica can use their facilities.
8. Your friend really hates college - the lack of sleep, sickness and depression. She wants to leave, so you suggest she:
A. Burn down the school.
B. Quit; if she's unhappy and it's going to ruin her life, she has the right to quit.
C. Stick it out; she got herself into it and education is too valuable to waste.
1) A-0, B-1, C-2: 2)A-1, B-2, C-0: 3) A-1, B-0, C-2: 4)A-2, B-1, C-0: 5)A-1, B-2, C-0:
6) A-0, B-1, C-2: 7) A-0, B-2, C-1: 8)A-0, B-2, C-1
If you scored mostly 1s, you may consider voting for John McCain. McCain (R-Ariz.) believes in keeping taxes low, so that American workers keep more of their wages. He recommends lowering taxes on big businesses to encourage them to stay in the United States and offering refundable tax credits to individuals and families for healthcare. He says he will not seek a constitutional ban on abortion or gay marriage. He opposes abortion rights and leaves the decision on gay marriage up to the individual states.
If you scored mostly 2s you should probably consider voting for Sen. Barack Obama One of Obama's (D-Ill.) points highlights the issue of distributing wealth; taking a little bit from each person and giving it back to the greater community. Particularly concerning health care, Obama says that he will implement a system that allows people from middle or lower-income families to afford health care, which will be partially paid for by the government. Obama also supports civil unions for same-sex couples, abortion rights and tax breaks for people in middle and lower income brackets. He also has agreed to end the war in Iraq if elected, and strongly supports revisions in the public education system.
If you scored mostly 0s, then you should consider giving up on the election altogether. If you honestly believe rainbows and puppies will solve the health care crisis, then we'd prefer if you didn't show up to the polls today. So if you think Jell-O will solve the Iraq War or that the elderly's answer to social security should be the fountain of youth, just forget about the election just like how you forgot to research it. Do all sides a favor - sleep in.
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Matt
posted 11/04/08 @ 10:04 AM EST
This should be a quiz on monetary and foreign policy. Not whether the canidate I choose is a good boyscout. "These questions represent the major issues under scrutiny. (Continued…)
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