Mr. Eagle,

Please forgive my oversight---my excuse is that it was the first post so when I went back to see if my observation was correct I failed to even read yours again because...well I don't know why.

NOTHING pisses me off more than people posting without reading the thread. I therefore apologize.

upon reading your post now however, I think that it's interesting that you would seem to bolster my observation that it is indeed harder for a conservative to score conservative. You said "I've always considered myself to be right-wing (economically more so than politically), but was placed bang in the middle left/right ". I still postulate that this is because a people from the left WROTE the test, they reeally don't understand WHY a conservative believes the way he does---they relied on cliche' and and their own prejudicial beliefs about conservatives.

My guess is that if they ever cite this study to make a political point, they will have come up with a study that "proves" how "fringe" conservative thought has become.