Sorry, the choices are pretty idiotic. Very few people in the U.S. have actually given this enough thought to be able to answer correctly, and even fewer could pick one of these two choices if they're being honest with themselves. The fact is that once somebody spends some time considering the issues individually -- weighing the facts, rather than simply going with a gut reaction -- all but a small minority will find that they fall closer to the center than they would have expected.
The sometimes liberal, sometimes conservative media would have you believe otherwise -- that most people sit on the extremes, when in fact it's only the loudest or most radical people (the newsmakers) that sit out on the extremes, with the nearly silent majority somewhere closer to center.
Careful consideration of the big political issues has led me to understand that I fit somewhere close to center on average. But on some issues, I'd be labelled a liberal; on others, a conservative; and on some, an idiot (because I believe in compromise -- a concept that helped forge this nation but that the media believes no longer exists.)
I didn't vote because the choices are woefully inadequate.
