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Joe Manchin
Former US Senator
Democratic senator from West Virginia from 2010 to 2025, then an independent: a decisive Senate vote, a defender of coal and an obstacle to many of his own party's reforms.
«The centre exists, and it decides.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Joe Manchin sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on foreign policy: fairly towards “interventionism”; method: fairly towards “reform”; environment: fairly towards “growth”; justice: fairly towards “tough on crime”. On economy, society, sovereignty, democracy and devolution it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is liberal conservatism (91%).
Position on the 13 axes
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EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Liberal conservatismThe Notary91%CentrismThe Tightrope Walker89%Constitutional monarchismThe Loyalist88%Closest parties in Europe
CDU/CSUGermany95%
Noi ModeratiItaly95%
KeskustaFinland95%
Polskie Stronnictwo LudowePoland95%Similar figures
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