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90% Chris Dodd
89% Mike Gravel
89% Dennis Kucinich
86% Barack Obama
85% Hillary Clinton
84% John Edwards
82% Joe Biden
75% Bill Richardson
40% Rudy Giuliani
25% John McCain
22% Ron Paul
19% Tom Tancredo
17% Mike Huckabee
16% Mitt Romney
7% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Seems pretty accurate to me; high scores on civil liberties and pro-choiceyness in particular seems to be the reason behind the matching. I is somewhat old-school liberal that way.

I might actually vote for Barack Obama, if I were an American, merely because he seems to have a good chance, and projects a mood of optimism the best. It is about time that the Democrats were seen to stand for something again, rather than just being Not The Republicans.

And yes, because he's black. Mumble excuse mumble

As expected, Rudy Guiliani comes out way ahead as the best of a bad bunch on the Republican side, probably because (AFAIK) he's the only pro-choice one out of the lot of them. Horribly fascist, though.

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"[...] Some people don't see it this way. When my fellow columnist Hardeep Singh Kohli, a Glasgow-born Sikh, wrote recently of his pride in his Scottishness, some contributors to our website posted comments along the lines that "if a dog is born in a stable it doesn't make it a horse". The idea of Hardeep being Scottish is offensive to some people. How dare he love the place of his birth, the place where he grew up, the place where he bought his first garish fuchsia-coloured corduroy suit?

Glorious diversity of our mongrel nation — Kenny Farquharson, Scotland on Sunday

Hehe, I like Hardeep's dress sense, personally.
On a more personal note, I like to see an undoubted Scot standing up agains the old "you're not Scottish unless you were born in Scotland" stupidity. If I'm not Scottish, what am I? If you call me English you'll get a nasty scowl at best, which is in itself a sign that I've been here quite a while...   8^)

I've heard the "you're not Scottish unless you were born in Scotland" line from plenty of otherwise very liberal and open-minded Scots, usually with a wry grin and a shrug, as if to say "we're xenophobic that way, but what are you going to do?". But I don't think this is true; Scots tend to be very aware of their fellow Scots' xenophobia, but that's a good thing. Not like England, with it's deplorable "I'm not a racist but..." attitude. Or France, or Germany, or the US, or...