Chris
03-10-2016, 12:50 PM
And some people thought the movement fading.
Gallup Finds More Libertarians in the Electorate (http://www.cato.org/blog/gallup-finds-more-libertarians-electorate)
The Gallup Poll has a new estimate of the number of libertarians in the American electorate. In their 2015 Governance survey they find that 27 percent of respondents can be characterized as libertarians, the highest number it has ever found. The latest results also make libertarians the largest group in the electorate, as compared to 26 percent conservative, 23 percent liberal, and 15 percent populist.
For more than a dozen years now, the Gallup Poll has been using two questions to categorize respondents by ideology:
Some people think the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Others think that government should do more to solve our country’s problems. Which comes closer to your own view?
Some people think the government should promote traditional values in our society. Others think the government should not favor any particular set of values. Which comes closer to your own view?
Combining the responses to those two questions, Gallup found the ideological breakdown of the public shown below. With these two broad questions, Gallup consistently finds about 20 percent of respondents to be libertarian, and the number has been rising in the Electorate, 2000-2015.
http://i.snag.gy/YQzTo.jpg
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From The Libertarian Moment Is So Over That Libertarians Are Now The Single Largest Group: Gallup (http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/08/the-libertarian-moment-is-so-over-that-l):
http://i.snag.gy/ewlBO.jpg
Gallup Finds More Libertarians in the Electorate (http://www.cato.org/blog/gallup-finds-more-libertarians-electorate)
The Gallup Poll has a new estimate of the number of libertarians in the American electorate. In their 2015 Governance survey they find that 27 percent of respondents can be characterized as libertarians, the highest number it has ever found. The latest results also make libertarians the largest group in the electorate, as compared to 26 percent conservative, 23 percent liberal, and 15 percent populist.
For more than a dozen years now, the Gallup Poll has been using two questions to categorize respondents by ideology:
Some people think the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Others think that government should do more to solve our country’s problems. Which comes closer to your own view?
Some people think the government should promote traditional values in our society. Others think the government should not favor any particular set of values. Which comes closer to your own view?
Combining the responses to those two questions, Gallup found the ideological breakdown of the public shown below. With these two broad questions, Gallup consistently finds about 20 percent of respondents to be libertarian, and the number has been rising in the Electorate, 2000-2015.
http://i.snag.gy/YQzTo.jpg
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From The Libertarian Moment Is So Over That Libertarians Are Now The Single Largest Group: Gallup (http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/08/the-libertarian-moment-is-so-over-that-l):
http://i.snag.gy/ewlBO.jpg