PPP, RV, 4/4-7/2012, +/-3.1%, http://dailykos.com/story/2012/04/11/1082466/-Daily-Kos-SEIU-State-of-the-Nation-Poll-Barack-Obama-bests-Mitt-Romney-on-taxes?detail=hide Who do you trust more to keep taxes lower for people like you: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, or do you trust neither candidate more? Obama: 41% Romney: 33% Neither: 24% Unsure: 1%

Who are these 41% that actually think a Democratic politician will keep their taxes lower? I'm flummoxed!

The 41% who are aware of the fact that tax rates as low as they were under Bush.

Who are these 41% that actually think a Democratic politician will keep their taxes lower? I'm flummoxed! Both of my parents pay less taxes under Obama than Bush.

Both of my parents pay less taxes under Obama than Bush. The payroll tax cut means almost everyone is paying less under Obama.

The Political Compass charts the 2012 race: image://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb249/craverguy/Chart.png Remember, folks: it's critically important to the future of our country that you pick the blue dot in the upper right hand corner of the graph, not one of the red dots.

If you believe that chart, then I have a bridge to sell you in your mom's basement.

While an amusing exercise, the Political Compass uses too many loaded questions, making it rather easy to end up in the right-authoritarian quadrant. Romney and Obama probably should be close together, but their locations on that graph are comparable to Italian fascism.

Considering that Italian fascism was based on corporatist economics, imperialist foreign policy, and a crackdown on civil liberties...what's your point?

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -Benito Mussolini

Corporatism in the fascist sense has nothing to do with multinational corporations, but try again.

Who said anything about multinational corporations?

While an amusing exercise, the Political Compass uses too many loaded questions, making it rather easy to end up in the right-authoritarian quadrant. Romney and Obama probably should be close together, but their locations on that graph are comparable to Italian fascism. Their assessments of politicians are also based on subjective inferences they make from their speeches and policy pronouncements, rather than any actual input from the people they're evaluating. I'd seen their assessment of the 2012 election, and it very much read like something Craverguy would write.

"Fascism is fasces, sperm and egg, plug and socket, have their own needs. Damn have some balls! Non-linear phylatician Anglican fascism." -Golok Van Dongen Buday

Their assessments of politicians are also based on subjective inferences they make from their speeches and policy pronouncements, rather than any actual input from the people they're evaluating. So this supposedly subjective comparison is wrong because candidates aren't able to say that they're not fascists?

Maybe they just take for granted that people won't use that characterization the same way the right has started using socialism.

Have people here taken the test? Clearly it's not an exact science. Pretty sure all the candidates would say "no" to jailing and murdering political dissidents. Except maybe Gingrich.

Have people here taken the test? I did. I ended up on the lower left-hand part of the graph. But I guess I just got lucky with the "loaded questions" that push you into giving right-wing authoritarian answers.

I did too, incidentally, and I'm probably slightly more authoritarian than Obama.

On which issues?

I ended up in the orange quadrant.

Sounds pretty accurate to me, Jason. It's been a while since I took the quiz, Karma, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't ask about religious restrictions on immigration.

In Mexico, the political experts think that Barack Obama is really vulnerable because of the economy but how strong is Mitt Romney to defeat him?

Polls at present show Romney is far behind Obama, but I'm convinced the race will be much closer once the general election ceremonially begins in the first week of September.

I'm sort of halfway between Romney and Ron Paul. Still in the blue square, though.