Politicalcompass.org claims that there is almost no difference between Obama and Romney

[Denzil_DC]

15. "I'm not sure if their famous 'what is your political compass?' quiz is even very accurate."

I've completed it a couple of times a couple of years apart (well into the "Gandhi quarter" each time, though with some interesting variations over time), and I'm very skeptical about it.

Expecting yes/no answers to some of their questions, which are a quite glib, is facile, and sometimes they're based on assumptions that I don't agree with. I could easily answer the opposite way on some of the questions if I were allowed caveats and a more detailed explanation of what I think.

I'm not aware of either Romney or Obama having completed the quiz, so their "results" are presumably cobbled together from public information, stump speeches etc. This won't necessarily reflect their underlying ideologies. In the case of Romney, whiich public statements would you rely on anyway? heh.

It's a fun exercise, like you'd find in the pages of a pop magazine, but hardly scientific, so I take all this with a big pinch of salt.