Please share your superior insight with us, beyond a declarative unsupported statement.

 

It is actually more of my opinion, still a statement, but not something that should be considered "superior insight." I just think the poll could have been written better.

I'll admit that there are many good questions.

Here is how I came to my opinion. Many of the questions were looking to satisfy only the extremes of each spectrum with the only "Neither" being the only other option and does not necessarily take the place of a political middle ground. On most of the questions "Neither" is expected to cover a very broad range of philosophies.

A few examples,

#2
Either increase taxes the top 2% or have absolutely no increase in taxes. Simple fact of nature is that somebody has to pull the wagon. Either make the rich pull the wagon or no taxes at all. One is favoring a redistribution of wealth and the other is that taxes are pure evil.

#11, and yeah, I'm gonna **** some people off here.
Either have no regulation or under no circumstance, allow abortion. Again, neither is the only answer to cover a possible middle ground that there are certain limited situations where it should be an option.

#14, I had to laugh, it was the only one that provided a middle ground option. Go figure, they would make a compromise on drugs.

#15, This one sounds like it was geared for Mitt Romney with the "repeal and replace" Obamacare or support it. Option 3, again, "Neither" is too broad. Neither could cover from doing away with it completely and not replacing it with something else or keeping parts.

#16 Position on Environment and property rights. IMO those should be separate. Environmental policy is not always directly related to property rights and vice versa.

#17 Climate change, either it is caused by humans or it is totaly fake. Neither is left to cover the fossil and glacial records and every hypothesis in between.

#18, Arizona's immigration policy. Neither is forced to cover the majority of current policies.

Some questions like #22 are phrased with bias. No, not everyone drinks, drives or flies but I'm sure every state has a standard ID.

Like I said, it had some good questions but it also had some bad ones.

 

I noticed the poorly written questions also. Since this is far from a true scientific survey I took it for what it is. Internet fun.

 

A simple survey doesn't equal biased. 25 questions and only a few answers to choose from on complicated issues isn't going to dial you in for a particular candidate, but choosing between extremes can put you in the ballpark. Having said that, I clicked neither on several answers and thought it would have been nice to have more options.

You went from "it's spin", to "it's a bad poll". I tend to lean more toward agreeing with you on the latter. While I think it's mostly just internet fun, a lot of people go to the polls never having considered a quarter of the questions asked. Too many go in with a list from some organization that tells them who they are supposed to be voting for, to present a unified front, and have no clue what they are really voting for.

 

I'm pretty jaded when it comes to politics but to me the two descriptions can be tied together in this case. Polls like these are designed to attract certain answers from certain people, something I consider as a form of spin. It allows the highest bidder to dress up the results to fit their position. Around four years ago I BSed a poll because I was bored only to see it later used as a reference.