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Question:  Why are there so few Republican scientists?    Answer:  The point of science is to seek the truth and Republicans don't like the truth and don't recognize it when they see it.

If you look at all the people suffering financially and laugh at them because you are fine,
    then you might be a red-n . . . err   Repbulican

If you call "diversity" that "horrible immigrant problem",
    then you might be a Republican

If you think it is just fine to take a gun to a political rally, especially when the politicians aren't your skin color,
  then you might be a Republican

If you think that the government runs the best military in the world and that has nothing to do with the fact that it would run the worst medical care in the world,
  then you might be a Republican

If you think it was just fine for John McCain to reverse his position on torture (from the US should not do it - to ok it's just fine since I am no longer likely to be captured), 
   then you might be a Republican

If you think that your immigrant ancestors coming into this country have NOTHING to do with the current immigrants trying to escape horrible conditions in their own country,
   then you might be a Republican

If you think that lying, cheating, and fooling stupid people is the best political strategy,
  then you might be a Republican

You know that your neighbor, Jack, is in dire straits financially.  There is a tree on your neighbor's property that is about to fall over into another neighbor's (Bill) yard.  
Your response:
a) To offer to pay for it since you know your neighbor can't  - (0 points)
b) To offer to help take up a neighborhood collection to pay for it (you agree to pay half) - (1 point)
c) To ignore the situation since it is not your problem - (2 points)
d) To tell Bill to find a lawyer so he can sue Jack when the tree falls - (3 points)
e) To laugh at Jack since your yard is fine - (4 points) 

Your friend Steve is running for a president of the local neighborhood committee.  Steve is the same skin color as you, speaks the same (English only) language, and works at a local bank and is therefore an upstanding citizen.  As you canvas the neighborhood for him, many people seem to have the wrong, in fact opposite idea of where he stands on the issues.
Your response:
a) To correct them each and every time on every point where they have misunderstood his position  - (0 points)
b) To hand them a flier and direct them to where they can find out details of his opinions - (1 point)
c) To state his positions in generalities that everyone would agree with (example, families are good) - (2 points)
d) To only correct the ones that are opposed to what they incorrectly think are his positions - (3 points)
e) To tell each person what they want to hear, as long as they agree to vote for Steve - (4 points) 

You join a community group and quickly find out that they share all your values.  You learn that there is a new business in the neighborhood that clearly does NOT share the same values.  You spend weeks with the community group trying to find ways to encourage the new business to change its values, to no avail.  Your group finally has settled on bombing the building when no one is in it.  
Your response:
a) Go immediately to the police and give them the names of everyone in the group  - (0 points)
b) Tell the police anonymously, so as not to disclose either your name or any of your friends - (1 point)
c) Leave the group but do nothing else - (2 points)
d) Continue to go to the group but do not participate in the planning - (3 points)
e) Participate in the planning because you think this is the best way to avoid getting someone killed - (4 points) 

Your small business has decided to vote on the healthcare plan that everyone must adopt.  You have a spouse and two children.  The person that shares your office has no family and has multiple sclerosis.  Plan A is the cheapest for you and covers all the basics.  It covers pre-existing conditions, but those people have to pay more.  Plan B is a little more costly than Plan A, but will cover diseases as long as they are not pre-existing.  Plan C is very slightly more than Plan B, but also covers pre-existing conditions.  For Plans A-C, families pay more than single people.  Plan D is the same as Plan C, except that single people have to pay the higher family price indicated in Plan C. 
Your response:
a) Vote for Plan C since that is the fairest for everyone  - (0 points)
b) Vote for Plan A  - (1 point)
c) Vote for Plan B - (2 points)
d)  Vote for Plan D - (3 points)
e) Tell your boss that you will start an office revolt unless they adopt Plan D- (4 points) 

Your small business has not made as high a profit as expected this year.  The boss tells everyone that they have several choices:  Either everyone takes a 20% pay cut, half the people take a 10% pay cut and 1 person loses their job, or 5 people lose their jobs.
Your response:
a) You agree to take the 20% pay cut so no one loses their job  - (0 points)
b) You agree to take the 10% pay cut so that only 1 person loses their job (not you)  - (1 point)
c) You vote for the 10% pay cut, as long as you are not part of the 50% of people to which the pay cut will be applied - (2 points)
d) You refuse to take a pay cut since you cannot be fired - (3 points)
e) You threaten to leave unless you get a salary raise, even if it means that 10 people will lose their jobs - (4 points) 

If your score is 0-5, you are a Democrat

If your score is 6-10, you are a Libertarian

If your score is 11-15, you are a disgusting Republican

If your score is 16-20, you need to go clean your gun, be sure to look down the barrel while doing so.

Don't get overly excited - this was just a joke.

STOP the war in Afghanistan as well as Iraq!  

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