CBC Vote Compass

cbc.ca/news/politics/canadav … tecompass/

Answer the 30 or so questions and see where you stand on the issues and which political party is closest to your views.

I did it quickly this afternoon and found out I am closest to the Liberals. I took my time a few minutes ago and found out I was closest to the Greens.

I am still voting NDP.

There is some controversy because it appears that more people are ending up closest to the Liberals. I am not sure if there is a bias. I certainly would call myself a small l liberal so I wasn’t particularly surprised where I landed. What is interesting though is where the questions place you in the four quadrants. On the x axis you are placed left or right on economics while the y axis tells you were you stand on social liberalism. I ended up in the top left quadrant which is where all but the Conservatives can be found.

As well if you click on the icon for each political party it will show you how your answer compares to the party position.

Not sure if it means anything, but it was kind of fun.

Results showed that I’m Liberal leaning, and that I like Gilles Duceppe as PM. lol

Yeah, Nathan gets my vote on May 2nd.

It told me to vote green.

Is there a Pirate Party candidate in our riding? I wonder if I should run? I’m sure I could take 20 or 30 votes!

pirateparty.ca/

I love that they elect their candidates using a forum! pirateparty.ca/forum/index.php?board=2.0

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH…Avast there, matey! You’ll need a parrot if you plan to run an effective campaign. :smile:

I propose the Benevolent Dictator Party. Just write my name in on the ballot wherever you are.
If I win, I will appoint someone to represent your riding for you.
You won’t ever have to participate in these unnecessary, inconvenient, expensive elections again!
Hell, if anyone ever bores you talking politics just pick up the phone. I vill haff zem shot! Unt zare wimmenfolk as slaves!

[quote=“herbie_popnecker”]I propose the Benevolent Dictator Party. Just write my name in on the ballot wherever you are.
If I win, I will appoint someone to represent your riding for you.
You won’t ever have to participate in these unnecessary, inconvenient, expensive elections again!
Hell, if anyone ever bores you talking politics just pick up the phone. I vill haff zem shot! Unt zare wimmenfolk as slaves![/quote]

Hmmm sounds like you’re voting Liberal!

[quote=“Smurfette”]

[quote=“herbie_popnecker”]I propose the Benevolent Dictator Party. Just write my name in on the ballot wherever you are.
If I win, I will appoint someone to represent your riding for you.
You won’t ever have to participate in these unnecessary, inconvenient, expensive elections again!
Hell, if anyone ever bores you talking politics just pick up the phone. I vill haff zem shot! Unt zare wimmenfolk as slaves![/quote]

Hmmm sounds like you’re voting Liberal![/quote]

Ha-ha ++

I was somewhat disturbed when my result came out as liberal…

I will be voting NDP, and always have.

I guess I’m liberal :stuck_out_tongue:

Definately dont have anything in common with the NDP.

I don’t know who I’m voting for yet…it will either be liberal or conservative or green. (I dont follow the local trend of voting NDP)

Have they choosed a liberal candidate for our riding??

Interesting. According to the vote compass I should vote Green. Nathan gets my vote. :smile:

Funny that the compass said I’m Liberal too.
Too bad I’ve never lived in a riding where the Liberal candidate stood a snowball’s chance in hell. Might have bit my tongue and voted that way.

[quote=“herbie_popnecker”]Funny that the compass said I’m Liberal too.
Too bad I’ve never lived in a riding where the Liberal candidate stood a snowball’s chance in hell. Might have bit my tongue and voted that way.[/quote]

I am not sure how the test works, but I am certain there is a built in - probably unintentional - bias towards the middle. When I did the test the first time, I did it quickly and without a lot of thought. Many of my answers were “somewhat” agree/disagree. That made me a Liberal. When I did the test the second time, I asked myself how strongly I actually felt and I changed some of my answers to “strongly” agree/disagree. That made me a Green.

I also think that most of us vote out of habit. We look at the candidates the leader and the party and make a decision not so much on the actual issues but on our perception of who we think will serve us well. So even a person who is voting conservative because they don’t trust the damn socialists and are fed up with the entitled Liberals very likely said that the rich and corporations should pay more in taxes which would make them more liberal than they might think.

The other thing that I found interesting about my own responses. When it came to economic issues like a carbon tax or the payment into CPP or even the involvement of the private sector in health care, I was waffling by using somewhat. When it came to increased access for abortion, the legalization of marijuana, gay marriage and other social issues, my opinions were always strong.

The only question where I would be solidly conservative was the one about moving violent juveniles into adult court. For the most part I am skeptical about the law and order platform of the conservatives, but when I hear of a horrid crime committed by an unrepentant teenager, I have little sympathy for the criminal.

What I found interesting was that no one party has everything that would make me happy.
It also shows that there is a blur between the parties so much so that traditional definitions of parties are skewed. Who really is Liberal,Conservative,N.D.P. or Green?
I suspect most of us are all a little bit of everything. That doesn’t always make it easy.
I am a federal Liberal (provincial Liberals are not liberals ) but will probably vote for Nathan Cullen because I think he has been a good spokesman for our riding and has proven to effective in Ottawa.
When I did the poll I came up a strong Liberal with some (ugh) Conservative tendencies

Ironically the test told me I should be voting Conservative. I’ve never vote conservative. Nor do I care for the Conservative political figures nor their elected resultant actions or policies.

I think there is a definite difference between the beliefs these parties are elected to represent and the beliefs, policies and actions the elected goverment actually brings to effect.

Honestly, when I go to the voting booth nowadays, I look at the ballot and make believe I’m look at X Amount of Piles of Dog Crap - then attempt to choose the least smelly.

I stopped voting on my beliefs about five years ago, and I’ve been listening to friends, colleagues and family and voting on the side of the “projected” “majority government.” Simply because I’m tired of facing the dismal economic outlook here in the North while I am firmly rooted here and cannot leave.

I’m choosing to not factor in my beliefs in the voting process until economic certainty is achieved. Then I’ll worry about my say in whether or not women have a right to say what happens in their bodies.

The CBC has a Liberal bias and a financial stake in the next election. Whodathunk their test results would tell independents, neutrals or fence leaners that they are Liberals. The test is a sham, surfing for sheep. Rest assured they will find plenty. Hopefully not enough.

You may or may not be right, but I am finding this survey more and more fascinating.

The Ottawa Citizen had an article about it.

Read more: ottawacitizen.com/news/Vote+ … z1INbI7Fxr

I don’t know if anybody went any further than just finding out which party they agreed with. The 30 questions were split into 10 categories. If you go to other options, you can decide which of those 10 issues are most important to you. I selected the four that were most important to me and all of a sudden I was closer to the NDP on the grid. I started playing around. If I had said the six issues that were not as important to me were actually the issues that were important, I am closest to the Liberals. If the economy and the environmnet were the only two issues that I considered important, I landed right on the Bloc.

You can also go to each of the individual questions and see where you stand on each issue compared to all the parties. On who I should actually vote for, it is a bit muddled, but it clearly tells me who I should not vote for - there were only a handful of questions where the conservative party and I somewhat agreed. And no matter how I arranged the issues in importance I was never any where close to the Conservatives.

But that is me. If you are really concerned about the bias, look at each individual question and compare your answer to the paries’ positions.

I got middle between Liberal and Conservative, but slightly more Liberal leaning.

This was right in line with my views…perhaps slightly more Conversative than I thought it was going to be.

I have always only ever voted Liberal, but would certainly vote Conservative over NDP if there were no Liberal option.

I too played around with the options thing. I ended up being WAY more conservative than I thought I was. oh well I won’t be basing my vote on some silly internet test anyway :stuck_out_tongue: