I took the Select a Candidate survey published by Minnesota Public Radio after seeing Scott’s post about it. The results were about what I expected. Here are my top 3, not surprisingly:
My bottom 3, also not surprisingly:
I thought I liked Ron Paul, but the survey tells me that I did not like him as much as I thought: he ended up with a 9.0 in my results, in a tie with Giuliani, who I knew I did not like. While I did agree with both of them on several issues, they each had a very unique set with which I agreed; only on the marriage issue did I agree with both of them. I have no idea who Gravel is, but he came in a close 4th with 16.0.
In the interest of accessibility and fairness, I have linked to the same pages as MPR did for each candidate.
Mike Gravel is a former two-term Senator from Alaska…who will likely be dropping out soon (in all honesty, but not necessarily in all fairness).
I was annoyed to find that my top two were apparently Edwards and Clinton, but there were several where I went with “best choice” or picked almost randomly between two that seemed to be pretty much the same, so I will blithely continue on as I have been. :p
Thanks for not posting on my site Viki. I see how it is. Bradly I want to be your former two-term lover from Alaska.
You can be…but only if you learn how to spell my name correctly first.
Great link, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Same to you, Scott.
I almost spelled it Bradley. Me so sorry. Also Me so horney. I want to be on you.
Did I just spell horny wrong. This shit needs spell check.
@Scott: Get Firefox. In addition to being a better browser than Internet Explorer with respect to web standards compliance, it has built-in spell check, tabbed browsing, and many add-ons to infinitely extend the capabilities of the browser. Hell, some of the add-ons will even let you limit the capabilities of the browser if you wanted to do that. For example, one add-on I use will let me switch to using Internet Explorer as the rendering engine for an open tab on the fly, allowing me to view some sites that require the dreaded lesser browser.
@Mark: For the record, the latest version of IE does have tabbed browing.
@Joe: IE7 does indeed have tabbed browsing, as well as support for “tab groups” for bookmarking multiple tabs, tab thumbnails (not standard in Firefox), and built-in extensible search. The features page includes the rest of the good bits.
IE7 is generally a vast improvement over IE6, but there are some exceptions. One example is IE7’s propensity to break web pages because it assumes the site author wants a page rendered in one way, when in actuality the site author wants a page rendered as it is programmed. This is becoming less of an issue, now that IE7 has been out for over a year. The four major browsers are much better now than they were even a year ago with respect to respecting web standards and throwing out the fluff.
I still prefer Firefox, but it lets me be more productive when I’m using the internet.
This is all academic anyway…a spell-check certainly would not have told him that my first name has an “e” in it, and it may or may not have contained “horny,” which is slang and also means “consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.” We shouldn’t be so reliant on spell-check.
@Mark: Even though I mostly use Firefox, I find that more often it is Firefox that alters or screws up the layout of webpages for me. Sometimes I have to temporarily switch to IE to be able to see something properly. Most often it is text that is not laid out properly in news stories. Is that what you mean by “breaking” web pages, and if not, is there a way to avoid whatever that is?
@Brad: More or less, yes, that’s what I mean by “breaking” pages. What sites are you going to to read news stories? I don’t know why Firefox is screwing up the layout of pages you visit, unless the pages were not constructed properly in the first place. When I have to view pages using the IE rendering engine, it is usually because the page uses an ActiveX control (such as a couple of work-related websites I must visit).
Aside: ActiveX is only supported by IE on Windows. This “feature” was designed to allow web developers to access code and data on your computer that resides outside of your browser. That makes it less secure. To contrast that, Java was designed to live inside of a sandbox that lives inside of whatever application calls it, like a web browser.
With IE, my problem is that there were so many hacks required to make some layouts work properly in IE6 because of the lack of standards compliance as compared to the other major browsers. Microsoft wanted IE7 to be more standards compliant than previous versions. So they added a render mode switch, which changes the way IE7 renders a page depending on the code it sees on the page. This breaks pages that were hacked to work with previous versions of IE.
If IE never required the hacks in the first place, site designers would not have had to hack their pages to work with the most dominant browser world-wide. IE7 would not have required a render mode switch, and would not have broken pages because they were not hacked to work with previous versions of IE.
Does that make sense?
I’ve always just used IE by default, and I actually only tried out Firefox a couple of weeks ago because when on the DePaul wireless network IE7 won’t open gmail for some reason, but Firefox will. I still use IE for everything else, mostly because I’m a creature of habit. I probably should have tried Firefox a long time ago because it seems like a lot of the features that IE7 integrated that I’ve come to love have been in use with Firefox for a long time.
Gay Sex, I just wanted to throw that out there.
Excellent point, Scott.
Rebuttal?
@Mark: Mostly it is MSNBC news stories. What happens usually is that the text, instead of wrapping like it normally would, continues going to the right and goes behind/underneath an advertisement or other graphic of some sort so that it can’t be seen.
@Scott: Impeccable logic, irrefutable reasoning, and superior argument: I have no reply or rebuttal but to simply yield the floor.
@Brad: You shouldn’t use such big words for our friend. The biggest word he’s used in the comments on this post is “Alaska.”
Also, I just checked MSNBC and I had no problem with the layouts for the first five stories I opened. I’d check your version of Firefox, as well as what add-ons and extensions you have active.
@Mark: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious……….So is your face.
THAT you spell correctly…
Ctrl C Ctrl V baby.