The Political Compass

On the Political Compass test, I sit at just about the same spot as Nelson Mandela (left-of-centre, libertarian). Various other NZ-based (mostly political) bloggers have sent their results to NoRightTurn, in an effort to 'map the New Zealand blogosphere'.

It seems kiwis are generally a pretty liberal bunch: only NZPundit pokes its head above the 'Authoritarian/Libertarian' divide, although I was surprised to see the majority of pundits were right-of-centre in their political leanings. Although, after reading some of them, maybe not. Is Russell Brown the only left-wing political blogger currently posting in NZ?

Update 1. Of course, had I read the blog that the results were being compiled on, I would have noticed that (duh) norightturn is itself a left-wing blog, and since my last browse, he's also added leto the left hand side of the graph. So, us lefties aren't as rare in the blogosphere as I had initially suspected. Phew.

Update 2. Ah yes, all the lefties are crawling out of the woodwork now, and the left/right split is now ever-so-slightly more balanced. Fellow lefties now include nzmusic mate Joe Mahoney and the excellent named Sock Thief. Still, there's no-one as far to the left as DPF and Darkness are to the right
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