Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run?

[JDPriestly]

480. Opinions are not verifiable facts.

That chart is based on the opinion of someone that a particular point of view is "liberal." But what is liberal and what is not is a matter of opinion just as what is good and what is not is in political matters a question of opinion. As I pointed out, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are good examples of the fact that what is liberal refines itself all the time.

When Bill Clinton was in office, the economic policies of Robert Rubin and Greenspan were OK with liberal. I don't think that liberals are comfortable with those policies any more. That is because our reality is that the disparity in wealth between people like Robert Rubin and the rest of us has become intolerably great.

The Clintons could get a pass on their lack of concern for that disparity in wealth when Bill was president. But now, liberals are increasingly incensed at that disparity which is crippling our society. So I don't think that, if you could have a chart that accounted for the subtle and not-so-subtle changes in the ratings on issues by the majority of liberals that the ratings on that chart would be accurate.

Ted Cruz is way, way conservative. His ideas are so far to the right that the chart which is not keeping up with current attitudes, which, in fact, cannot keep up with current attitudes, can reflect how Cruz has changed the ranking of issues. The issues that determine conservatives from liberals, etc. are constantly changing. That's why the chart can approximate a very loose categorization of potential candidates, but is no by any means accurate in this time of great change in those attitudes.

That chart could never make it into a court. It is too subjective. If you are relying on it, you are not relying on facts. You are relying on subjective judgments made by academics somewhere. You are not relying on facts.