{"id":347,"date":"2003-12-16T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-16T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T00:22:13","slug":"for-your-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/for-your-amusement\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Amusement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=http:\/\/www.franklinharris.blogspot.com\/2003_12_14_franklinharris_archive.html#107153442197661911>Franklin Harris<\/a>, the <a href=http:\/\/www.selectsmart.com\/president\/>Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector<\/a>. My results certainly look odd, which suggests a <a href=http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/sports\/tvlistings\/abcStory?page=bcsexplanation>BCS<\/a>-like inscrutability in the formula, as well as a lack of exhaustive choices on some questions. Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Your ideal theoretical candidate.   (100%)<br \/>\n2.  Libertarian Candidate   (90%)<br \/>\n3.  Dean, Gov. Howard, VT &#8211; Democrat   (47%)<br \/>\n4.  Sharpton, Reverend Al &#8211; Democrat   (45%)<br \/>\n5.  Bush, President George W. &#8211; Republican   (42%)<br \/>\n6.  Socialist Candidate   (39%)<br \/>\n7.  Phillips, Howard &#8211; Constitution   (36%)<br \/>\n8.  LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. &#8211; Democrat   (35%)<br \/>\n9.  Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH &#8211; Democrat   (35%)<br \/>\n10.  Kerry, Senator John, MA &#8211; Democrat   (28%)<br \/>\n11.  Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR &#8211; Democrat   (27%)<br \/>\n12.  Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL &#8211; Democrat   (23%)<br \/>\n13.  Edwards, Senator John, NC &#8211; Democrat   (23%)<br \/>\n14.  Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT &#8211; Democrat   (17%)<br \/>\n15.  Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO &#8211; Democrat   (16%) <\/p>\n<p>Clearly, <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P326_0_1_0>this blog&#8217;s detractors are right<\/a>, at least about me: I am a Socialist (#6). Oh, and I love George W. Bush (#5). What really amazes me, though, is Howard Dean&#8217;s ranking. Granted, the agreement percentages drop dramatically after Libertarian, from 90% to 47%, but I think this highlights how unreliable rhetoric is. If I agree with Dean or Bush nearly half the time, it must be on the basis of vague campaign promises, not anything either has actually done or will do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Franklin Harris, the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector. My results certainly look odd, which suggests a BCS-like inscrutability in the formula, as well as a lack of exhaustive choices on some questions. Here&#8217;s what I got: 1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%) 2. Libertarian Candidate (90%) 3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT &#8211; Democrat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}