Presidential Candidate Calculator

My MIL just forwarded me this interesting "calculator" that helps you match up your beliefs and preferences on various issues with presidential candidates. Of course, I suppose this assumes that all candidates would actually act on whatever position they currently say they hold once they get into office; I would have liked it better if it had included "history of consistent voting record" as part of the calculation.

While there is not one candidate that I feel completely comfortable voting for at this point (for one reason or for many), this was a quick way to figure out who the candidates were that I could most likely (and least likely) support, although I think I already had a rough idea about this before I used the calculator. I liked that you could plug in not only "yes," "no," or "unsure" for each issue, but also that you could rate each issue according to how important it was to you. The calculator also has a two-or-three-paragraph explanation of each side of the argument for each issue, in case you are unfamiliar with any of them.

I will not necessarily vote for the top candidate that was returned to me in the calculator, but I think the candidate I end up voting for will probably have been in the top 5 (out of about 20) results that the calculator gave me after I plugged in my answers. I don't want my blog to turn into a political one, so I'm not sure I want to post my specific results; but I'd love to exchange emails if you want to know, or want to tell me what answers the calculator gave you.