Really Iowa?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Man, I wanted to be a Stalinist too.  Well, I can't say I'm surprised.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Huh, the image didn't link.  Well, it's here:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-9.00&soc=-8.21

I'm about falling off the lower left corner.

[buffcoat]

Seems like the FOT political motto should be: "Proudly Individualistic and Redistributionist!"

That really wouldn't look interesting on T-shirts.

[Sarah]

Okay, I finally took that political compass test, and here's my result:

[Laurie]

I don't think you could be more left if you tried. You clearly win.

[Sarah]

But Jasongrote is further south than I, so he wins that one.

Actually, I took this test a few years ago and was all the way down in the lower left corner, truly as far west and south as one could go.  Apparently I've become more conservative since 2003.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I am a little more Libertarian than Sarah, but I'm also a little more right-wing.  It must have been from holding a copy of The Fountainhead that one time.

[Sploops]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=9.75&soc=8.62

I was trying for as for north-east as possible.  Missed it by this much.

[Oogie]

Your Results:
76% Ron Paul
60% Mike Gravel
58% Mike Huckabee
55% Dennis Kucinich
53% John McCain
53% Mitt Romney
51% Tom Tancredo
50% Fred Thompson
43% John Edwards
42% Bill Richardson
41% Chris Dodd
37% Barack Obama
36% Joe Biden
36% Rudy Giuliani
34% Hillary Clinton

Here's my pie:



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[Laurie]

I am a little more Libertarian than Sarah, but I'm also a little more right-wing.  It must have been from holding a copy of The Fountainhead that one time.

I regret that I can correctly pronounce Ms. Rand's given name. I'd rather not know.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Wasn't it originally something Russian?

[Sarah]

Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум).

Good old Wikipedia.

[Laurie]

Something JEWISH and Russian. Well, I can rest easy knowing that I didn't know that! Unfortunately, her surname is very similar to mine.

My paternal grandparents' name was changed from Rosenblum to Blum when they immigrated from Russia. It's true. Yet somehow my maternal grandparents' got to keep Bauwmeester! And even I'm not sure if I'm spelling my mother's maiden name correctly. It certainly looks wrong, though I'm certain the "meester" part is correct, as it's a Dutch name.

[scotttsss]

for the record. 
 

[buffcoat]

Everyone in the same quadrant (except me), and I'll guarantee you that Tom is in that quadrant as well (real Tom, not show Tom).

Don't we have SOME authoritarians who listen to the show?  Isn't there somebody on the FOT site who listens to the show every week and says, "My heavens!  He can't say that!  Stop saying that, Tom!"