There is no shortage of pundits who are eager to tell Americans why one candidate for president has all the answers and another would be a disaster if elected.

Patrick Miller – an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Kansas – offers a straightforward, nonpartisan look at Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump as well as Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

Are Clinton and Trump as far apart as their most militant supporters would have you believe? What is behind the growing popularity of third- (and fourth-) party candidates? On what issues is there the most disagreement? And where can we find middle ground?