Try This Candidate Calculator

Know where you stand on certain issues but not sure what candidate(s) share your beliefs? Yes? Then try the Candidate Calculator at VAjoe.com. All you do is choose yes, no or unsure on 23 different issues then rate each issue's importance as high, medium or low. Hit enter and voila, it's the candidate you should vote for and support.

My top match for Presidential candidate, according to this calculator, is Mike Gravel -- a 100 percent match. If I am reading the results right, at the time I completed the calculator, Gravel is the most top-matched candidate at 25 percent. Kucinich is at 12.5 percent, Clinton at 8.33 percent and so on. Hardly the results one would expect from a military site, but my guess is that the calculator just went live and not too many have had a shot at it.

Of course, no system of this kind can be completely cogent. There is no good way to take into account each candidate's varying degree of support for each issue. For example, say one candidate is for a border fence, but only wants a partial one while another candidate wants an all out barricade making the Great Wall of China look like some traffic cones.

So go give it a try for yourself. Even if you are already dead set on a candidate, it will display other candidates closely matched to your stance on the issues in case Mike Gravel is somehow eliminated.

-Dippold

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