We also have something like this in my home country, but I don't think it really abstracts away "emotion", nor that it even could in theory. The questionnaires

We also have something like this in my home country, but I don't think it really abstracts away "emotion", nor that it even could in theory. The questionnaires are obviously written by someone, projected through the lens of the respective views and, well, emotions. Also many "hot topics" in politics are by their nature very emotionally loaded. People are emotional creatures and in a lot of situations think more with their heart than their head, and while that quality is often vulnerable to exploitation especially in politics, I don't think trying to deny it does anything good at all. These tools are rather handy for extracting actual opinions from candidates though, which they usually are pretty successful in hiding among all the PR-esque claptrap that they spew out in speech and writing.