{"id":833,"date":"2008-09-20T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/whos-your-political-soulmate.html"},"modified":"2008-09-20T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:22:00","slug":"whos-your-political-soulmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/whos-your-political-soulmate.html","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Your Political Soulmate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/politics\/MatchoMatic\/fullpage?id=5542139\">ABC News has put up a quiz<\/a> to see which candidate better aligns with you.  (Thanks to Mom for sending it in.)  It&#8217;s kind of interesting.  They have specifically chosen quotes from each candidate that are not in stark contrast.  The result is that the choices are far from obvious.  I suspect that if you&#8217;re not a political news junkie you&#8217;ll be hard pressed to identify the speaker from the quote.  Also, there&#8217;s the spin interpretation that&#8217;s hard to figure out when these texts are taken out of context.  For example, it means different things when one talks about &#8220;middle class tax cuts&#8221; than when the other does.  You can&#8217;t really translate the code if you don&#8217;t know which cipher to use.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the choice was still blindingly clear.  I&#8217;m curious though, for people who maybe aren&#8217;t addicted to news, were your results surprising??  Feel free to share your results and impressions in the comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News has put up a quiz to see which candidate better aligns with you. (Thanks to Mom for sending<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2008\/09\/whos-your-political-soulmate.html\" title=\"Read Who&#8217;s Your Political Soulmate?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}