Joe Biden vs Barack Obama

They are 2.9 apart on the PoliMap compass, a 90% match with each other on this chart.

AuthoritarianLibertarianLeftRightBidenObama
Joe Biden

Centre-left US president

Economic -1.5 · Social +0.5

Cell: Liberal Democratism

Barack Obama

Liberal US president

Economic -3.8 · Social -1.2

Cell: Social Liberalism

Joe Biden (Centre-left US president) and Barack Obama (Liberal US president) are useful to compare because their public records pull toward different mixes of markets and authority. The gap of 2.9 is the straight-line distance between the two coordinates, not a moral score.

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