President's Race

I do not like McCain.

I do not like Romney.

According to the presidental candidate selector at selectsmart.com however, my results are shown below. Obviously I need to do more research on McCain to see if I can get over his angry-little-man personality and support him since apparently I do, in theory, agree with most of his positions.

My big issues are foreign policy [do not give up on Iraq; support free trade], immigration [increase legal immigration;offer a guest worker program and amnesty, build a fence for security going forward], lower taxes, absolute opposition to universal health care, support of 2nd amendment gun rights, and in general a president who will discourage congress from getting involved in domestic issues they have no constitutional jurisdiction over [like marriage, divorce, funding for the arts, etc, etc].

1.
Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)

2.
Alan Keyes (78%) Information link

3.
Chuck Hagel (not running) (76%) Information link

4.
Sam Brownback (withdrawn, endorsed McCain) (72%) Information link

5.
John McCain (71%) Information link

6.
Stephen Colbert (gag; campaign halted) (71%) Information link

7.
Newt Gingrich (says he will not run) (71%) Information link

8.
Tom Tancredo (withdrawn, endorsed Romney) (68%) Information link

9.
Duncan Hunter (withdrawn) (68%) Information link

10.
Mitt Romney (67%) Information link

11.
Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (66%) Information link

12.
Fred Thompson (withdrawn) (66%) Information link

13.
Wayne Allyn Root (63%) Information link

14.
Ron Paul (62%) Information link

15.
Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (58%) Information link

16.
Rudolph Giuliani (withdrawn, endorsed McCain) (56%) Information link

17.
Mike Huckabee (49%) Information link

18.
Tommy Thompson (withdrawn, endorsed Giuliani) (45%) Information link

19.
Bill Richardson (withdrawn) (37%) Information link

20.
Christopher Dodd (withdrawn) (36%) Information link

21.
Michael Bloomberg (says he will not run) (36%) Information link

22.
Hillary Clinton (33%) Information link

23.
Joseph Biden (withdrawn) (33%) Information link

24.
Al Gore (not announced) (31%) Information link

25.
Barack Obama (31%) Information link

26.
John Edwards (31%) Information link

27.
Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (27%) Information link

28.
Mike Gravel (26%) Information link

29.
Dennis Kucinich (withdrawn) (23%) Information link

30.
Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (17%) Information link

31.
Elaine Brown (7%) Information link

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