There is no "both ideologies"; the viable candidates run the gamut from very conservative to sort of maybe centrist with a little stretch of the imagination. American politics is calibrated so far to the neo-liberal, authoritarian area of the political compass that we have no idea what real political differences are.
Sort of true. I'm looking in from the outside...we've got some truly liberal politicians up here and while I think you're sort of right I see some of the candidates, particularly coming from the Democrats as being decently liberal enough to deal with. A few of them you might even be able to stick into the Liberal party up here and they would largely blend in (although I think they would ultimately be horrified

) although none of them are cut out for the NDP. The problem is that the whole freight train that is the American government has become a somewhat authoritarian system with allot of power at the top. More than I think there used to be historically. But thats not really a new thing...probably been going on for decades.
The best hope is for a moderate from either party to win and sort a few things out. Maybe get your spiraling national debt under control somehow
