Are You in the New American Center? 51% in center.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/center-interactive-quiz?ignoreCache=1An Esquire/NBC poll, tied to our latest chart-filled examination of the state of our politics.
Where do you fall on today’s ideological spectrum? Answer a few short questions and find out
whether you’re part of the New American Center.
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as a teabagger. Here's what I got:
Also, which questions you ask and how they are worded dramatically-skew outcomes. The results can be made through application of basic assumptions of the polling entity to confirm any hypothesis...no matter how absurd. Further: Precision ≠ Accuracy.
Another problem can be surmised as "He who cuts the pie, measures the slices." That is, out of the respondents to their poll, they classified them into eight categories which we will simply refer to as 1-8 with 1 being very-liberal and 8 being very-conservative. Category 5 is not however the totality of their "New American Center"; 51% of respondents did not score in category 5 and if they did, it would belie credibility...no, their totality of the "New American Center" represents a range of four categories that they have disclosed as categories 3, 4, 5 and 6. But who made that determination? They did, it confirms their hypothesis. They likely would have made a different determination if "4-7" or "2-6" had better proved their hypothesis. Do we have to accept their determination as valid? It makes as much sense to narrow the "New American Center" to "4-6" or "3-5" both of which provide dramatically-different results. (Especially since their avatar of category 5 is Phil Robertson...a guy who openly displays his disdain for non-conservatives.) I can present an equally-valid interpretation of the data to say that the "New American Center" is a vast minority of the population...all I have to do is confine the range to either only category 4 or 5.
The reality is ideological polling (as opposed to predictive polling such as that used to predict the outcomes of elections where the parameters of the outcomes are defined and universally-understood) is by its very nature invalid. It looks good but it's about as credible, as a result of its inborn flaws, as tea-leaf reading, Cosmopolitan surveys and phrenology. There is no way to filter for the biases of the polling entity, even the means attempted in this article of using two ideologically-opposed polling entities tends to only amplify those biases upon which they agree even when those biases are demonstrably-false. ("All unicorns agree that unicorns are real."
So I'm not that surprised that most DUers so far are the left-most 10% 'bleeding hearts' (including me, and I'm not far left here). Bernie Sanders doesn't exist, it seems.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ideological-spectrum-1113#slide-1
Left-most 10%: 'Bleeding hearts' - Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi (heh - that'll get a few comments here...), Mike O'Malley
Next 11%: 'Gospel Left' - Joe Biden, John Lewis
14%: 'Minivan moderates': Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
13%: 'MBA Middle': Harry Reid, Jon Tester, Michael Bloomberg
12%: 'Pickup Populists': Arnold Scharzenegger, GHW Bush (ie "these moderate Republicans have all retired"
13%: 'The Whateverman': Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney (in their case, this apparently means "say whatever it takes to get elected"
14%: 'The Righteous Right' (I think I may barf): John Boehner, Mike Huckabee (seriously? The man's a nutcase when you look at his positions), Nikki Haley
14%: 'The Talk Radio Heads': Marc Rubio, Liz Cheney, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz (notice they've got 4 in this category, because the USA is suffering from a plague of wingnuts)
Proud to be a member of the Ten Percent. 
