How "Progressive" are you?

[FORD]

Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?

March 11, 2009

The Center’s latest pair of reports on the new progressive era now sweeping the country—Senior Fellow Ruy Teixeira’s “New Progressive America” and Senior Fellow John Halpin’s “The State of American Political Ideology, 2009”—map in detail the changing face of American political thought over the past several decades.

Take the interactive poll below (based on the national survey featured in Halpin's report) to see how your own ideological leanings stack up against those of your fellow Americans.

Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?

[FORD]

FORD's results:

Your ideological score is 359/400. This makes you "extremely progressive". The average score for Americans is 209.5

[Angel]

Shit, you're more progressive than me. I scored 279

[FORD]

This quiz is probably written better than most of the online political quizzes in recent years, most of which seem to be premeditated to a certain outcome. This one had some questions where I definitely had to go all the way for or all the way against, but there were others where there was enough room for middle ground.

I still think their "average American number" is a little low though

[Redballjets88]

I got 225

[sadaist]

148 / 400


Too many of the questions were too vague to be able to answer honestly. Take #35 as an example. It did not differentiate between legal and illegal.


#35
Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs and abuse government benefits.

[FORD]

148 / 400


Too many of the questions were too vague to be able to answer honestly. Take #35 as an example. It did not differentiate between legal and illegal.


#35
Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs and abuse government benefits.

Yeah, I had to think about that one a while myself. Not just because of "legal" or "illegal", but because of all this H1B visa crap as well, which might as well be called "internal outsourcing" (i.e. bring the Indians here to steal the jobs instead of shipping the whole country to Bangalore)

I consider that to be a different issue than someone who legitimately moved to the US in search of opportunities, as most of our ancestors did.

[Redballjets88]

Yeah, I had to think about that one a while myself. Not just because of "legal" or "illegal", but because of all this H1B visa crap as well, which might as well be called "internal outsourcing" (i.e. bring the Indians here to steal the jobs instead of shipping the whole country to Bangalore)

I consider that to be a different issue than someone who legitimately moved to the US in search of opportunities, as most of our ancestors did.

yeah that question was a bit too open ended. I don't have too many problems with them working, I have never met an illegal that wasn't a hard worker, but the issues with them using american services i don't like.

[Combat Ready]

133 for me

[LoungeMachine]

367

Top that, bitches.

[kwame k]

Your ideological score is 308/400. This makes you "extremely progressive".

[LoungeMachine]

308?

pussy neo-con.

[Blaze]

[kwame k]

Not bad for an ass-parrot, you weren't around to tell me what answers to put in.

[Combat Ready]

367

Top that, bitches.

Nice. Marx only scored 365.