94% liberal
93% ndp
91% green
79% communist
5% conservative
the poll was pretty inaccurate in terms of the way it assigned positions. for example, it claimed the ndp were in favour of nationalizing the oil industry, which hasn't been true since before i was born (and which i'm in favour of, fwiw). and it claimed the liberals were in favour of national pharmacare, which has been voted on at the liberal convention but never taken up by the party (and which i'm also in favour of).
i'd say my preference right now is: green (probably about 90% agreement), ndp (about 70%), liberal (about 60%) - and conservative is not an option. but, on the key issues to me, only the greens are legitimately appealing at this point. i'm not quite a communist, and i'd never vote for any kind of mlm or trotskyist or any other variant. bunch of fascists, really. but i'm some kind of anarchist. and, taking the authoritarians out of the spectrum, i'm just listing from left to right. even the liberals are pretty much out of my sphere, but i just can't drop them. i have a lot of respect for what pierre trudeau was able to get through into law, even if a lot of it was with heavy ndp prodding.
it's actually surprising that i got such a high rating on the conservative side. i did a us poll a few years ago where i agreed with romney on 1% of issues. that was 1 out of 100 issues. the 5 indicates that our right is a wee bit more moderate.
i'm a politics nerd. i'll be buzzing around this until it happens, and likely even for a while after it - depending on the outcome. but, i want to get some more work done tonight.
this is from the last election, and you can see how the canadian spectrum works a little. the bq is a quebec separatist party that only runs candidates in that province.
since then, though, the ndp have moved to roughly where the liberals are in that picture, and the liberals have crossed the economic axis (while remaining roughly steady on the social axis).
i hope the cbc runs a vote compass this election, and it's accurate, and people use it. it may be enlightening to people.