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In reply to the discussion: UPDATE to the 2012 Political Compass check-in. Take the candidate quiz and add those results too! [View all]Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)I looked for a page that detailed how they answered the questions for each candidate, but I couldn't find one. The only explanation is a listing of some of the worst things Obama has done and an offensive suggestion that people only voted for him in 2008 because he's black.
The quiz puts test takers in a quadrant based, it seems, on answers to a whole range of questions. The libertarians who made the chart put Obama in a quadrant, based, it seems, on the extension of the bush tax cuts, drone strikes, and the appointment of industry people to the EPA and FDA.
An argument can certainly be made that Obama has behaved in ways that are right leaning and authoritarian. But it is not realistic to suggest that this quiz would put him in that quadrant of the chart.