Articles
Longer readings of the same charts.
- How to read a political compass
What the two axes on Uncanted mean, what a dot is, and what a nearby name does not prove.
- Which presidents sit closest and farthest apart
The shortest and longest distances between U.S. presidents on Uncanted’s two axes, and what those distances do not mean.
- How the 2026 federal elections sit on the chart
Why the 2026 House and Senate dots use party programs, not roll-call scores, and how the two names in each race were chosen.
- What a roll-call score can tell you
How Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score places the 119th Congress, and the questions a single number cannot answer.
- Authority and liberty are a second axis
Why Uncanted does not treat borders, speech, policing, faith, and emergency power as just another word for left and right.
- Nearby on a chart is not the same person
Why a short distance on Uncanted is not a moral likeness, a voting recommendation, or a shared character.
- Promises, and what the record did instead
How Uncanted separates a public promise from the governing record, and why the 2026 chart does not pretend they are the same.
- What a country average is
How Uncanted computes a country dot from finished quizzes, and why it is not a poll of that country.
- Party color is not the position
Why Uncanted paints a party label and still lets a Republican sit left of a Democrat.
- How world leaders were placed
What the world-leaders chart uses, which names are marked as extremes, and how to argue with a dot.