Just when you thought Trump was the crazy one ...

BETWEEN them they’ve won a Grammy, recorded a folk album and cooked bacon with a machinegun. The presidential candidates are weird and wacky.

BETWEEN them they’ve won a Grammy, recorded a folk album and cooked bacon with a machinegun. One hates disco but loves Nicki Minaj, another is the star of his own video game and we haven’t even mentioned Donald Trump.

With Super Tuesday almost over, who are the frontrunners trying to take out the top American job?

TED CRUZ (REPUBLICAN)

One could be forgiven for thinking that candidates who aren’t Donald Trump represent the more moderate elements of the Republican party, but you haven’t met Ted Cruz.

Once thought to be too conservative to win the nomination, the Canadian-born Texan Senator is the poster boy for Tea Party conservatives. He’s pro guns, pro the death penalty and pro-life.

He opposes gay marriage, wants to repeal Obamacare and is proposing a flat rate of income tax of 10 per cent. He’s a champion of Conservative rhetoric but after an initial win in Iowa he looked to be heading out of the race.

However wins in Texas and Oaklahoma will keep him going. If he does leave the primaries empty-handed he can always start his own cooking show. Cruz likes to prepare food using automatic weapons. Bacon with smattering of AK47 anyone?

MARCO RUBIO (REPUBLICAN)

He hates disco, loves Nicki Minaj and is married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. This Cuban-American Catholic, turned Mormon, turned Baptist, turned Catholic again is probably the least entertaining of the Republican frontrunners. But is that really so bad for a politician?

Marco Rubio is perhaps the most sane candidate the republicans have. Shame he’s not going to win the nomination. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP

With Jeb Bush’s departure, Rubio has positioned himself as the establishment choice for the Republican nomination. However that won’t necessarily be enough to help him in the polls. He hasn’t done well on Super Tuesday, but is hoping a good showing in his home state of Florida will keep him in the running.

DONALD TRUMP (REPUBLICAN)

He’s mad, bad and dangerous to know. The billionaire real estate mogul with zero political experience has decided his first foray into the world of elected office should be as the President of the United States.

But he’s gone from crackpot candidate to the Republican favourite. His policies include building a wall to keep Mexicans out of ‘Merica, not letting foreign Muslims into the country and cutting taxes for everyone.

It’s now surprisingly likely that this crazy cat is going to win the Republican nomination. Picture: AP Photo/John Bazemore

Backed by a star spangled cheer squad he’s threatening to make America great again with his free money for all and anti-everyone rhetoric. It would be funny if it wasn’t working so effectively.

Democrats are desperate for him to get the Republican nod because they believe there’s not enough crazy in the country to actually put him in the White House. Is there? If he does somehow scoop the top prize, build a nuclear bunker.

BERNIE SANDERS (DEMOCRAT)

A self-declared socialist in the country where the term is an insult, Bernie Sanders is flying the flag for the disenfranchised. The junior senator from Vermont talked his way to prominence in 2010 with an eight-and-a-half-hour filibuster opposing tax cuts.

He wants to force action on climate change, is pro gay marriage and universal health care and wants to fund a fairer America by raising taxes. The closest Australian equivalent would be to imagine Sarah Hanson-Young as an old white dude whose name makes you think of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He’s the star of his own video game and has recorded a folk album We shall overcome.

So is there anything this man can’t do? Well, becoming the next President does seem a little unlikely, but stranger things …

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (DEMOCRAT)

Easily the most qualified of all the candidates and one of the best known, Hillary Clinton looks likely to stave off Sanders and secure the Democrat nomination.

She’s lived most of her later years in the public eye moving from First lady to Madam Secretary. She trained as a lawyer but actually wanted join the Marines. At 27, she was told she was too old, was a woman, couldn’t see and should try the army instead. Still she can hold her own with the best the military has to offer — in 2004 she beat war veteran John McCain in a shot drinking competition.

Hillary Clinton just might make history. Picture: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

She’s won a spoken word Grammy, published five books and is taking her second run at the presidency. Her policies in many areas would not be revolutionary. But she’s the first Democratic candidate to run with a policy of gun control since Al Gore’s shot at the White House in 2000.

With early results suggesting a Trump-Clinton contest, can she go one better than Al and become the first female President of the United States?