Who Should I Have Voted For
Yes, ok, perhaps "For whom should I have voted", but you guys don't like the dative case.
This system compares your views on a number of different policies with the views of Kerry and Bush. Where one candidate has made a statement on something but the other hasn't, agreeing with that statement will increase the score of the candidate that agrees, but not decrease the score of the one who hasn't spoken about it. If a candidate disagrees with your view, then their score is decreased while a candidate that agrees with you gets a higher score. The score difference for each question is determined by how important you rate it. 0 means does not affect score, 5 affects the score 5 times more than 1. If you see two questions along similar lines and feel like you've already rated that topic and don't want to rate it twice, then set its importance to 0. If you don't know what a topic means, or haven't decided what your view is on it, then set its importance to 0.
The candidates stances on these policies were taken mainly from this msnbc page and this bbc page. If you know of other policies that should be in this set of questions, please feel free to send them to me, or comment on this page. I need to know both Bush and Kerrys view on it ideally. If you're european and need to see a counsellor because your views agree with Bush's more than you'd realised, then counselling.ltd.uk might be able to help.
Since it's almost impossible to make people vote on issues rather than personality/media appeal, perhaps something like this should be the way elections are done in the future.
In case you're wondering, I'm -20 Bush, +35 Kerry. I guess that makes me a Kerry supporter with a score of 55.
