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How I answered the survey follows

1st column: Survey question
2nd column: 1: Strongly Agree 3: Neutral 5: Strongly Disagree
3rd column: . -- =The issue is not important to me, o= Neutral importance, ++= Important issue for me

Social Security should be privatized. 2: (tend to agree) o (neutral)	2	o
Employers should be legally required to hire more minorities (affirmative action). 4: (Tend to disagree) -- (not very important to me)	4	--
The government should provide stronger financial support to unemployed workers.	5	o
Obamacare should be repealed.	1	++
Religious values and principles should be shown greater respect in politics.	1	++
Voter ID should be required for voting.	1	++
The legalization of same-sex marriages is a good thing.	5	++
Restrictions of personal privacy on the Internet should be accepted to help investigate terrorist threats.	5	o
The legalization of the personal use of marijuana is to be welcomed.	4	--
Access to abortion should become more restricted.	2	++
The government should prioritize the development of green energy.	5	o
The wealthy should be taxed more heavily.	4	o
Government stimulus is an effective method for economic recovery.	3	o
Investment and stock market gains should be taxed more heavily.	4	--
Criminals should be punished more severely.	3	--
Gun ownership should remain an absolute right. 1	1	++
Immigration into the United States should be made more restrictive.	1	++
The military should be expanded.	1	++
The United States should protect its sovereignty from the United Nations.	1	o
The United States should not send ground troops to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).	5	-

Ted Cruz
92%
Jim Gilmore
90%
Marco Rubio
85%
Jeb Bush
83%
Ben Carson
82%
Donald Trump
80%
John Kasich
78%
Jim Webb
52%
Hillary Clinton
33%
Bernie Sanders
22%

I kept track of my answers, and after seeing how many times in this thread people were saying they thought the survey gave random answers, I took it a second time, and got identical results.

It appears to me that the survey is very fair as far as positions of the candidates is concerned and according to my studies of their positions. I imagine if my opinion of the strong importance of tradition and religion in our political structure were weaker, that Trump would come in higher than 80% for me - I sure could not rate agreement with his immigration stance higher more strongly.

Another thing this poll does not measure is how I strongly de-rate "establishment politicians"... and that factor alone would bring Bush, Webb and Clinton down 10%, bring Rubio, Sanders and Kasich down 5% in my view, and bring Trump and Carson up 5%. That adjustment would place Trump and Carson above Rubio for my results.

Gilmore? who knows Gilmore? LOL

Finally, the poll DOES have references that justify the way they are rating the candidates, often based on the candidates own website, otherwise by referencing articles where the candidate states his view, so criticisms of the way they rate each question are not well based. You can look through each candidate and see what they said and why the survey rated as it did. (I also put in fake name, email, zip code, sex, etc.)

So you got cruz from a fox website that is in the tank for cruz.

So!

We don’t live our life by a setup test on fox news.

We vote on what we think and what is best for the country... you should think also...win or lose

Thank you for putting that Test in view of all to see. It has NO GOTCHA issues, and is not skewed to prefer any one candidate.

As you said they studied each candidates stance on these and used that as the basis for the outcome of ones responses to the test.

The objections to this test, is the fear it will not come out in favor of their candidate. My fear as well, but I dove right in anyway, chose to answer how I agreed/disagreed and it came out exactly what I liked.

I have already in some significant detail outlined the issues, as have others. In particular, if you are Trump supporter and take the poll you discover that Rafael is your "true and honest" voting choice. And, if I vote the Bernie slate I discover that Gilmore is the ideal anti-Bernie followed by Rubio and Jabadabadoo! with Rafael a marginally reliable anti-Bern. Trump is a better anti Bern than he is a candidate himself.

So, the problem is that the poll is not predictive of anything. It tells folks how they ought to vote - which is a push poll.