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FionaS 
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 12:17pm |
If you have some time on your hands, or feel like some intellectual stimulation, give this a go. Some of the questions are really thought provocing (some of them, IMO, are not well worded either). Quite relevant given the upcoming election.
Political Compass - Where do you sit?
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 12:37pm |
I did it aaaaaages ago, but in case you need it:
NZ Political Party Compass
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 12:43pm |
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Ironically, I doubt very much I would vote for any parties who sit in a similar position on the compass to where my views apparently sit. According to that test, I tend to vote for parties who are in an opposite corner!!!
Why? Because I think many parties have seem to have a social agenda that overrides where they theoretically sit. Does that make sense???
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 12:43pm |
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Yuhuh. It does.
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:01pm |
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Or maybe I'm just confuzzled! LOL.
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:28pm |
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YAY...I am a modern day Gandhi!! LOL
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:28pm |
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AND I will have to vote for the Greens!
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:32pm |
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Thanks - that was very good!
Liberal leftist here, and my dot is in about the same place as Greens (and I vote green).
Interesting where Labour sits - towards the right! And I was surprised to see the lack of liberalness (if that is a word) of the Maori party.
ETA - just saw that NZ positions were 2005. Would be interesting to see that updated.
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:35pm |
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Roksana - very important to party vote green, or according to the latest polls they won't even get 5%!!
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:42pm |
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Hey, I'm Ghandi too!
Funny, cos while I do agree with a lot of their policies, I am surprised that the Greens are the party I 'apparently' am closest to in core beliefs.
Thanks for that - really interesting.
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 1:55pm |
No surprises there. I'm a left-libertarian (my dot's a bit higher up than the greens so I'm not nearly as liberal as them).
BTW I was completely shocked by the number of racist questions in there - does racism really come into play in NZ politics or are they there for other countries?
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 2:10pm |
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Hmmmm - v. interesting. Just confirmed a few things for me.
Thanks!
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 2:59pm |
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I am more liberal than ghandi, and a little less liberal than the dali lama.
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 3:21pm |
Wow Im more liberal than I imagined 
However I couldnt bring myself to vote Green .. I cant stand Sue Bradford 
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 3:42pm |
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Jo - Yah I was surprised at those questions too... but I thought these were NZ First related questions....I could be wong! And my Dot was higher than Greens tooo..
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 5:13pm |
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I'm almost bang in the centre, but somewhat left. Where does it refer to what party vote?
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 5:19pm |
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There were too many big words and complicated phrases
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 7:11pm |
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I'm exactly where the Green's dot is! Whoa freaky. Most of us seem to have the same result so far..... hmmmm.......
Busymum the party vote chart is on the link that nikki posted.
Kelly have to agree, lots of big words! I had to think hard for some of them!
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 8:02pm |
Haha I'm more left wing/liberal than the Greens and Ghandi! I always vote green anyway- guess going by that I don't have much choice! 
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Posted: 22 August 2008 at 8:14pm |
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Hmm it said I'm nearest the greens - yeah right!
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