Potential Republican 2012 Candidate mapped by conservatism and govern affiliation

[nyker96]

Feel free to repost this thread with the chart's source and your own commentary.

-Schadenfroh(AT Mod)

 

[Throckmorton]

What does the circle size mean? Popularity?

BTW, how is Bachmann an outsider?

 

[irishScott]

lol Bachmann And Giuliani. And lol Palin for that matter. She'll probably run to represent the Tea Party, but she won't get anywhere. It'll be O'donnel and Angle all over again, on crack.

 

[Patranus]

Romney/Rubio 2012

 

[Throckmorton]

Romney/Rubio 2012

Show me Rubio's birth certificate.

 

[werepossum]

Who did the chart? It really needs to be two charts - fiscal conservativeness and social conservativeness. Herman Cain for instance is a fairly libertarian guy, so his "conservativeness" is hardly as strong in social issues as some of the others.

I'd like to see social issues broken down into one of three positions - conservative, liberal, and "states' rights". Personally I'd prefer human rights to be national-wide and economics to be state-by-state, but unfortunately it seems to be moving in just the opposite direction, with the federal government controlling economic issues and states determining your rights.