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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks Boycott Over Marriage Equality Spurs Tenfold Backlash [View all]We rated politicians on only 2 issues. 60% based on gun rights and 40% based on Queer rights. (And we defined queer rights as being equal to heterosexual rights. For instance, if a candidate said the govt shouldn't be in the marriage business, then they'd get 10 points for that question, even though opposed to same-sex marriage because they were opposed to all civil (not religious) marriages.)
Also, please provide links that work. The ones you gave don't. It's been too many years since we did those surveys for me to remember the arguments off-hand. But I'll talk about what I can since you ask...
"Zero points for supporting consumer protection legislation."
Correct. I don't remember this questionnaire, but the PP has held that the Govt shouldn't be in the business of protecting us from ourselves. Just as it shouldn't have passed (the now expired) "assault weapons ban" (without defining an "assault weapon", just a list of features to make shooting *safer*.
As for the final Republican you mention, he got 0 points for that answer. But IIRC, on the other 9 questions he got 10 out of 10 points for most of the questions, giving him a grand total of 85 out of 100 points. Which is a B. (90%=A, 80%=B, 70%=C, 60%=D, below = F.)
I don't remember the other democratic candidate questionnaires you mention offhand, unfortunately. Nor do I have access to the questionnaires, as they've been lost in time. If you can find the originals I'll be happy to comment on them, but this post took things out of context.