I was reading on Techcrunch about Connect2Elect ,the new web site that helps you pick the right presidential candidate based on your political views, priorities and attributes that you view as most important. So being such a novice in US politics, I decided to give it a shot as I need all the help I can get. I spent several minutes ranking my top issues, core beliefs etc and walla… the site has generated me the map you can see below. My position on the issues is represented by the orange dot and all the candidates are plotted below based on my ranking. Anyway, results were very surprising as the winner is John McCain who I didn’t really follow much and I ignored him and the person who is the most distanced from me is Hillary Clinton who I am actually very fond of as a charismatic leader so I guess those personal characteristics don’t get factored in that much. I doubt the notion that people just vote based on the issues. It is really about the whole package and that would be very hard for any software in the world to forecast as the intangibles are what make up the real difference in how people make decisions.
