2016 Presidential Candidates and What Their Signatures Tell Us

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

According to Michelle Dresbold, a graduate of the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program who's written a book on the subject, Carly Fiorina’s fancy “F” is “a bit pretentious,” and Hillary Clinton’s vertical slant shows her head rules her heart. Scott Walker’s signature, which appears to be “a strange version of Joe,” signals deception. And as for Trump, his writing suggests bigheadedness, anger and fear.

Some of these are really interesting.

Donald Trump’s signature has absolutely no curves, only angles. Curves in handwriting show softness, nurturing and a maternal nature. Angles show a writer who is feeling angry, determined, fearful, competitive or challenged. When a script is completely devoid of curves, the writer lacks empathy and craves power, prestige and admiration. Besides the bigheadedness that shows in this script there is something else that is rather over-sized—the “p” in “Trump.” This large phallic symbol shouts, “Me … big hunk of man.”

Check out the rest of the candidates' signature readings and see if you agree. Does your candidate of choice match up with their signature reading? Or is this all just hogwash?!

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/donald-trump-handwriting-analysis-2016-candidates-213161

[Elok]

I'm going to go with hogwash. She selectively applies criteria to only match the candidates' stereotyped characteristics. For example, there's no way in hell you could read that Trump signature as his unless you knew it in advance ("Davvvv Xmmvp"?), but he doesn't get the ambiguous and hiding something line. Also, that p really doesn't look like a dick.

EDIT: Also doesn't say that Trump fears abandonment, despite the jammed-together names. In Christie's case, jammed-together names indicate quick and fluid thinking instead. And so on. Some of these, like the baseball thing, don't sound like they could feasibly represent any kind of scientific thinking. And Rubio's "Ma Ma" is simple Freudian nonsense.

[giblets]

If she already knew who these people were before she looked at their signatures that could have easily influenced her interpretation.

[Lorizael]

Yes, in order to test the objectivity of hand writing analysts you'd have to blind them. And in fact, when you do that, they start screaming uncontrollably.

[The Mad Monk]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3858

[SlowwHand]

My signature would highly recommend me.
Laugh if you will, but facts are facts.

[Aeson]

I sign my name much like Jeb Bush and Bernie Sanders ... so I know who I'm voting for. Unless [both|neither] win their primaries ...

[FlameFlash]

Amazingly funny. I certainly can't argue with the assessments.

[My Hubby Loves Civ]

Amazingly funny. I certainly can't argue with the assessments.

Exactly, why I shared it. Whether there is anything in real graphic analysis or this is a spoof, it really seemed dead on with the descriptions. So does that mean we are bias?

[FlameFlash]

Probably biased. But I'm biased against stupidity period...