It's very odd to me that people who don't believe in Jesus tell us how He would vote, but those of us who believe in Him would never apply political labels to Christ.
Often times you will find what you seek. The Catholics (with some truth, actually) find Shakespeare to be a Catholic. The atheists find Marlowe to be an atheist. John Milton in some LDS circles is called "Milton the Mormon" because he is non-trinitarian.
On social media I often find agnostics and non believers posting "Jesus was a socialist" type posts. They'll put a quote of His there and a scripture piece here and determine that Jesus was, indeed, a socialist. Often times people who say this would never talk about Christian social teaching on abortion, adultery or gay marriage but they become bible scholars because it suits their goal.
The world was vastly different back when Christ lived. Our social structure, government and political structure was not even close to what it is today. While it's true, Christ did make political comments (Give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is Gods) He had better things to do than discuss political theory with Peter and James.
Personally I think Jesus was a libertarian. After all, He was killed by the state. Doubt he'd be much of a fan.
(Kidding, by the way. I don't attach political labels to Christ either)
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