Well, not everyone, but there’s a fascinating bit of political polling intelligence here. The site, designed by Matt Waterman, allows you to select positions on key issues and then matches the positions of the various candidates to see who comes closest to your opinions.
It’s no surprise that Dennis Kucinich was the winner when I did the survey; I knew I agrred with Kucinich on almost everything. But check out the results so far. More than 200,000 votes, and the candidate who most fits the actual positions of the voters surveyed is — overwhlemingly — Dennis Kucinich.
Interesting. This is obviously unscientific and self-selecting (and there’s a link to it on Kucinich’s site, which probably drove a bunch of traffic), but it’s also insightful: Since Kucinch is nowhere near the top in the “real” polls, one could conclude that either (a) a lot of people don’t fully understand where their candidates actually are on the issues, or (b) they are going to vote for a candidate whose views they don’t really accept, just because they think that person can win.
And while this survey has a tiny sample and probably doesn’t reflect the electorate as a whole, both of the above conclusions are, unfortunately, quite accurate.
(BTW, the photo above comes from an item on the Kucinch web site called “How Kucinich found love,” which I must say is one of the more embarassing things I’ve ever seen a candidate post. TMI, Dennis. TMI.)