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We’ve been watching our share of campaign coverage the last few weeks. But during Saturday’s debates, we couldn’t help thinking we’ve heard this all before. Turns out, we had.
We pulled ten statements from transcripts of Presidential debates. Decide whether the quote is from this political season or a prior campaign, then come back and tell us how you did.
Take the quiz: The Debating Game
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90%! I missed the Woody Boyd one.
posted by Denise on 1-8-2008 at 1:36 pm
Oh, I forgot to ask– that whole horizontal/vertical leadership thing from Mike Huckabee… do any of you know what the heck he’s talking about??
posted by Denise on 1-8-2008 at 1:38 pm
60%. Good quiz.
posted by Tim on 1-8-2008 at 1:43 pm
80%…the best score i’ve ever gotten on a mentalfloss quiz!
as for huckabee: i watched the debate and i still wasn’t following his leadership speech.
posted by kari on 1-8-2008 at 1:54 pm
80% I watched Huckabee on Letterman. He’s talking about a politician who will quit making claims for or against the “right and left” but rather take America in a direction that is up, as opposed to down. He’s just getting his plea in for everyone who is independent to vote for him. They’re all doing it. No one can win with just one party’s votes. They’re all full of hot air and shit. And we are left to sort out the lesser of two (or 8) evils.
posted by Tommy on 1-8-2008 at 1:58 pm
80% but that was based on guessing since they are all talking double-speak-babble.
posted by JaneM on 1-8-2008 at 2:25 pm
I’m kind of disgusted at myself, because this was my first ever 100% on a mentalfloss quiz…
posted by Ashley on 1-8-2008 at 2:38 pm
30%! Hahaha!
Funny how I score 100% on Billy Joel and cartoon voices quizzes, but current events?? Next!
posted by Jill on 1-8-2008 at 2:52 pm
90%! Only missed on the Romney/Clinton question.
I bet you could do the same thing with candidate quotes from 50 or more years ago.
posted by Dave on 1-8-2008 at 5:26 pm
70% Interesting who was connected to who, lol!
posted by Kim on 1-8-2008 at 6:21 pm
loved the game. only 60%–thought the ron paul one was a trick question.
posted by evan on 1-8-2008 at 8:05 pm
90%
I missed the the Ron Paul/Ross Perot question, and I miss Perot running for President, it made for such great skits on Saturday Night Live.
posted by Don on 1-8-2008 at 10:33 pm
80%… not bad for guessing on about half of them…..
i missed Huckabee/Perot and Brownback/Bush
posted by Austin on 1-9-2008 at 6:49 am
100%!
The first time!
I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing…
posted by Jack da Bomb on 1-9-2008 at 8:17 am
80%. Good thing I just reread George Orwell’s 1984 and refreshed my doublethink abilities. Doubleplusgood quiz!
posted by adrienne on 1-9-2008 at 11:48 am
90% - I missed the “Cheers” one, too. =P
posted by SaDiablo on 1-9-2008 at 12:05 pm
60%. Not my best but certainly not my worst.
posted by Tricia on 1-10-2008 at 1:07 am
~~just an average joe with 60%.
posted by patti on 1-10-2008 at 11:22 am
How did I ever miss that!! Mike Huckabee is gonna provide “vertical” leadership?? whatever that means! and the other one was Bush sr. who’d ever have thought? :D
80%
posted by Nirmal on 1-14-2008 at 7:48 am
90% I go the first one wrong; it sure fit Edwards to a “t” but who’d ever believe Jimmy Carter had any thoughts whatsoever about domestic policy towards corporations. All I remember is his Anti-American on foreign policy. I didn’t realize his screw-ups extended to corporate relations.
Then again, there is his famous “lusting after women in his heart” policy statement. I guess that kinda counts as domestic policy, right?
posted by Phil on 7-17-2008 at 1:02 pm