4 kommenttia

millikan

8.5.2009 14:49

Who did you get?
My top choices were mainly people I had never heard of and Kauko Juhantalo so no idea who I will be voting for, though interestingly when it comes to EU I seem to be much more right-wing than in national elections...might have to do a cop-out and vote for RKP.

Splenetic

8.5.2009 23:27

"...I seem to be much more right-wing ..." Nononononono!No voting for Kokoomus in EU elections! In the EU level they're part of the Conservatives who, among others, include the Polish Christian fundamentalists doing Westboros (i.e. blaming homos for the bad weather) and are becoming alarmingly popular in Poland. No extra power for those jerks, especially from a gay guy!!!

To answer your actual question, my Top 10 included only one of the four possible candidates prior to taking the test, the infamous Man, Jyrki Kasvi. I'm just not sure if I want to promote the leaving og one of the rare politicians in the Finnish parliament. Mainly there were a couple of celebrities, and I got Juhantalo, too (though I have no idea who he is). On my "least fitting candidates" I had one name I could guess would be there (and after reading his responses I find him even more repulsive), Kari Peitsamo (plus, he looks disturbingly much like the infamous "you look very beautiful today" co-student A). At least Liisa Sulkakoski wasn't on the "least wanted" list... very likely due to the fact that the questionnaire didn't include that many questions on medicine and homeopathy. What the fuck... she has her own party?! Her grammatical and spelling mistakes aside, she doesn't seem to have much background knowledge on other issues like NATO and taxation. The most questionable thing is that she'd be ready to take away freedom of speech to control unwanted phenomena.

After reading today's Syöjätär and the female candidate presentations, I have a fifth candidate (as not to make my life too easy since I've already been pondering about this for two months...). Alas, we seem to disagree on one extremely important question for me. Apparently it comes down to deciding between a female candidate whose themes are important to me but with whom I disagree on some important points, and a male candidate with whom I agree to pretty much anything and the things we don't agree on he can justify but in whose themes the female candidate's are not expressly mentioned.

millikan

9.5.2009 23:00

Oh no, I have far too strong aversion for Kokoomus or Keskusta to vote for them but as said, RKP might be a good choice. I too did get Peitsamo among the least fitting candidates...

Kasvi would be a good choice though then it would indeed be sad to take him out of Parliament (especially since I did have a good deal of those "I think this should be decided on national level" answers for things like taxation and minimum salary...) Still have to ponder what to do.

Splenetic

12.5.2009 11:41

Pondering continues. But let's shuffle the pack a bit further: YLE opened their elections quiz (I seem to get some odd satisfaction out of answering these and analysing how biased the questions are) at http://yle.fi/vaalikone09/vaalikone.php.

Tut, tut, no emphasis possibility. Okay, let's see the results... well, that's weird. Now all my top three candidates fit on the same list! But... STP as in Suomen Työväen Puolue? KA? What's that? SSP???

1. 227 Hassi, Satu VIHR 81%
2. 228 Hautala, Heidi VIHR 78%
8. 231 Kasvi, Jyrki VIHR 76%

Hmmm.... how come there's no possibility to compare my answers to a single candidate at a time. This two candidates at once is a bit distracting. Good, they've actually gone through the trouble of giving explanatory extra answers. Hmm... Kasvi still. But I really am not sure if I want to take him out of the Parliament. And who'll replace him, anyway?