Unfortunately, there’s only room for five “Issues” in a CT game. Candidates, questions, and answers all have to fit within the stats for five policy issues you pick. I decided to go with five that were the most relevant to the political discourse surrounding the 2016 election specifically:

• Trade
• Immigration
• Foreign Policy
• Civility
• Socialism

These worked well for the most part, but I’d run into issues where a question doesn’t really fit the paradigm. Like when we give Rubio a question surrounding gay marriage, or Biden a question regarding climate change, which stat does that really correspond to? Both of these are issues that played a rather significant role in 2016, even if it wasn’t large enough to warrant its own category.

I’ve taken to assigning them as subcategories based on how issues are rhetorically connected or how voting blocs tend to group. Climate change denial is often paired with concerns about domestic workers, so we should expect it to roughly correspond with the Trade stat.

The sub-categories I’ve come up with are as follows:

• Trade:
  • Climate Change
• Immigration:
  • Crime
  • Drugs
• Foreign Policy:
  • Terrorism
  • Privacy
• Civility:
  • Donald Trump
  • Social Issues
  • Institutionalism
• Socialism:
  • Healthcare