I asked people on Reddit what kind of US presidential candidate they will vote for. Given the fixation of the current election of the candidates’ gender and size of hands, as well as constant mentioning of Obama’s race and Hillary’s talk of her years in Arkansas, I added those attributes. What else is there? Oh, maybe political party.

Turns out political party matters.

Reddit people are mostly Democrat-leaning, but also seem to like an idea of an independent or a Green candidate.There is a small overall preference for normal-size hands and leftier states.

With these data, I ran a simulation of the share of the vote (Johnson and Stein are not represented perfectly because I did not include their hometowns in the survey; I did not include any independents). Hillary kind of wins, but Stein would be next. (The Green party should target Reddit in advertising I guess.)

If Reddit could pick an ideal candidate, it would be a black female Democrat from California with normal-sized hands.

There were two rather distinct segments in the responses:

One is more Democrat/Green-leaning (with greater preference for leftier states), and

The other more Independent/Liberatrian-leaning with less pronounced preference for leftier states, but more favourable to a Caucasian.



The survey was not limited to US voters, which is perhaps explains why not many would vote Republican.

Thank you all very much who responded (n=118). You helped prove that policies do matter (which, I did not even ask about really), but hand size does not. This is a great outcome of the survey.

You can take the survey yourself here: https://run.conjoint.ly/study/165/cds3xs2bxm