When it comes to party identification, Democrats have been making all the gains recently. But when it comes to ideology, 40 percent of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35 percent as moderate and 21 percent as liberal, according to a Gallup analysis of its 2009 polling.
The percentage of conservatives has increased by 2 points since last year, while moderates have decreased by two points and liberals fell by 1 point.
How would you describe your political views - [very conservative, conservative, (or) moderate liberal, (or) very liberal?
By party, 73 percent of Republicans call themselves conservatives, 24 percent say they are moderates and 3 percent liberals. Among Democrats, 40 percent say they are moderates, 38 percent are liberals and 22 percent are conservative. Forty-five percent of independents class themselves as moderate, 34 percent are conservative and 20 percent liberal. Those figures are without "leaners."
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It is also true that recent polls have also shown that while many people may not consider themselves liberals, they favor solutions to problems that are liberal-oriented more than right-wing oriented when they are confronted with specific policy proposals in the poll question.
Posted by: kind67
| June 15, 2009 11:31 AM
Also, the GOP of today is more about what's best for them and their party, not what's best for America. There is a reason that even in conservativie areas around the country they have ousted GOP incumbents and replaced them with Democrats. Perhaps if the GOP was indeed run by mainstream conservatives they would succeed. Currently, however, they are led by the ultra knee-jerk right, whose fringe ideas will get the party nowhere.
Posted by: mag_amberson
| June 15, 2009 1:48 PM
But 57% are NOT conservative.
Posted by: AmiBlue
| June 15, 2009 2:35 PM
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