Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up?
This is an interesting one from Compete.com. They really know who liberals and conservatives like among the current crop of candidates. Compete.com have some sort of web tracking software and they are watching YOU. Okay, maybe not you, but they grab information from ISP, volunteer panelists and people who install their toolbar (and why would you do that?). They say their data is “normalized” which I’m guessing means that they use the ISP data to correct for the bias inherent in the other sources. Anyway, what they have been able to do, apparently, is find out what percentage of visitors to websites for candidates read liberal blogs and which ones read conservative blogs. Then they calculate a ration of liberal/conservative to see how liberal or conservative the visitors to a candidates website are.
The interesting thing here is not that Dennis Kucinich has the highest ratio (most liberal), or that Fred Thompson has the lowest ratio (i.e. most conservative). The telling stat is that Hilary Clinton has the lowest score (most conservative appeal) of any Democrat and, scores even lower than Ron Paul, the ultra-libertarian fringe candidate. What does this tell us? Probably not much that we couldn’t predict, but it is a fun chart to ponder. Have a look at it at:
Compete Candidate Analysis
I have to say, having heard Ron Paul interviewed, even when he’s spouting some ideas to which I am deeply opposed, he is the only candidate who seems to say what he really thinks. That will, of course, ultimately count him out (never say what you really think), but it’s nice to hear, agree or not.
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