By The Way...

Monday, March 26, 2007
6:42:00 AM EDT
Hearing Fingers of Love -- Crowded House
Here's an interesting little online quiz from a group called Don't Vote, who aims to convince you not to vote unless you have a good grip on who or what you're voting for before you get to the polls and cast your vote. I am personally a fan of people keeping up on who and what they're voting for, although not to the point of keeping them from voting; that's why they have voter's guides at the polls themselves (I do wish people would read the text of initiatives while they're waiting in line to vote, rather than in the voting booth itself).

In any event, this quiz lists a number of politicians, statesmen and celebrities (to see where your interests truly lies, I suppose) and then based on how many you can identify -- as well as whether you can identify their current job -- gives you a response on whether you should or should not vote. I took the quiz myself and aced it, nailing the name and job description of every person in the quiz, which prompted the site to tell me that not only am I qualified to vote, I should probably run for office. Oy. Thanks, no.

Let me know how you do.


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• #6 Comment from monponsett 
  3/27/07 10:14 PM | Permalink

  I just vote for the Catholic one, which saves me a lot of time in Massachusetts. If (when) both or neither are Catholic, I vote for the more suburban one. If they both live in the city, I write in Carmelo Anthony.
• #5 Comment from cdbstratocash 
  3/26/07 1:47 PM | Permalink

  Yay! I scored an A+, though I missed one question.
  
  Christian  :-)
• #4 Comment from marciepooh1976 
  3/26/07 1:03 PM | Permalink

  I am, frankly, embarrassed at my score (F).  In my defence, I didn't educated-guess many of the ones I missed (and would have gotten many right if I had), I just went with the instant - I don't know.  Also, I get most of my news on the radio so pictures don't help much.  No excuses.  Still embarrassed.
• #3 Comment from madcobug 
  3/26/07 12:48 PM | Permalink

  What is going on? No alerts today so for, for 6 hours? Helen
• #2 Comment from trunkboy21 
  3/26/07 9:41 AM | Permalink

  Sadly, I shouldn't vote, and should move to France.
  
  I scored the worst on things like the house minority leader, press secretary, etc.  Notably not something I would vote on anyway.
  
  I think photographs are not really a great way to identify our knowledge of leaders -- some of us prefer not to watch C-SPAN. :)
  
  Do I wish I scored better?  Sure, because I'm the kind of guy that likes to know everything, but I'm not interested enough to change my habits, and hang up posters of our world leaders.
  
  What really worries me is that I bet a lot of people score the actors who've PLAYED the president on TV as the real deal.  THAT would scare me...  On that same note, I noticed California's governor wasn't listed, as there would be a couple valid "what is their job" answers... ;o)

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