Pew Research Poll : Where do you fit on the political spectrum?

Pew Research Center ^ | 14 September 2012 | Pew Poll

[Vigilanteman]

Interesting 12-question quiz to see where you fit on the political spectrum compared to others of your age, gender, race, party affiliation.

http://www.people-press.org/political-party-quiz/

[Vigilanteman]

I'm not quite into the deep red zone, but I am somewhere between the 15 yard and 20 yard line. How about the rest of yinz?

[Steely Tom]

I’m in the part of the political spectrum that contains people who think that Pew Research Polls are a joke.

[joe fonebone]

just about pegged in the red....

[whitey righty]

I am to the right of the “Tea Party Republican” marker :)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m dancing in the right end zone.

[umgud]

I almost fell of the far right side of the chart.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Somewhat to the right of Tea Party Republicans.

However, I'm with Steely Tom — the poll isn't valid. (I don't know about PRC polls in general.) I could make a list; but here's the most important thing: you can't map political leanings on a one-dimensional spectrum. You need at least two, and preferably three dimensions, to begin to do a reasonable job.

[austingirl]

I am to the right of the “Tea Party Republican” marker :)

Me, too!

[Texan5]

According to that poll, I’m just a bit to the right of Attila the Hun...

[Blacksheep]

Right of the Tea Party, hanging on by a fingernail!

[DaveInDallas]

According to that poll, I’m just a bit to the right of Attila the Hun...

You left wing socialist...

[clamper1797]

I pegged the right side of the bar

[wideawake]

Looks like 2 yard line.

[Hieronymus]

Far into the deep red zone—I’d guess at about the 97th percentile. Slightly more conservative on social than economic, but far to the right of anything that they have on anybody. Certainly far to the right of “certain Romney”—the “average independent” is closer to “certain Romney” than I am—which they have right.

If anyone manages to hit the very end, I’d like to compare notes.

[pgkdan]

[LibLieSlayer]

I am to the right of the TEA Party... I am proud of myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Me too! Congrats!

LLS

[pgkdan]

Don’t know why it didn’t show but the arrow that said “You” is pointed at the very far right.

[Hieronymus]

I’m curious on what it takes to hit the end. Were all of your answers on one extreme or the other? I had five mostlys, which I would think should make me somewhat more moderate unless the scoring is a bit more sophisticated than I am thinking.

[Fresh Wind]

I’m a right wing extremist. I make the Tea Party look like the CPUSA.