You hear a lot about "left-wing" and "right-wing" and the question has to occur to you, "Where am I on the political spectrum?"

Well, if you imagine that the distribution of American voters is typical of most things in life, its probably well distributed in a normal fashion.

If you were the perfect centrist, half of the voters would be more liberal than you, half would be more conservative.

Where is Obama? How many people are more liberal than him and how many are more conservative?

Charlie Brown?

Here is a shot at it in graphic form. Think about where you fit.