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Number of the Day: 31 percent of voters consider themselves politically moderate

September 9, 2020: Thirty-six percent (36%) of voters nationwide consider themselves to be politically conservative while 27% say they're liberal. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 31% view themselves as moderate.[1]

Those totals include 18% who are very conservative and 11% who are very liberal.[1]

Seventy-five percent (75%) of Republicans are conservative while 55% of Democrats are liberal. Among independent voters, 46% are moderate and the rest are evenly divided.[1]

In the suburbs, 36% are conservative, 30% moderate, and 30% liberal.[1]

In urban areas, the numbers are 34% liberal, 28% moderate, and 30% conservative.[1]

In rural America, 40% are conservative, 37% moderate, and 13% liberal.[1]

Yesterday’s Number of the Day showed that 65% of voters view Donald Trump as conservative while 55% see Joe Biden as liberal.


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Scott Rasmussen is an editor-at-large for Ballotpedia, the Encyclopedia of American Politics. He is a senior fellow for the study of self-governance at the King’s College in New York. His most recent book, Politics Has Failed: America Will Not, was published by the Sutherland Institute in August 2018.

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