Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
The idea that you can take the complexity of a person's views and plot them on a single axis from right to left has always been a bit nuts. I
Yep. The US is in trouble for the simple fact that too many people simple "vote red" or "vote blue". They let others make the decisions based on what they *believe* the party represents.

If instead of voting for a person, people voted for issues - You then match people's issue votes to the candidate that best supports them. We'd have completely different outcomes. I think most people would be surprised by where their votes would land.....