30 September 2016

The presidential political spectrum

There are five candidates for President on Montana’s 2016 ballot (nine candidates in Minnesota): two major party candidates (Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump), two minor party candidates (Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Jill Stein), and Roque De La Fuente of the American Delta Party, which is really just a one-man vanity adventure that defies categorization.

The graph below displays where I would place the big four on a liberal-to-conservative and libertarian-to-authoritarian plot. This is subjective. I suspect, however, that someone has done this quantitatively.