{"id":1616361,"date":"2022-08-19T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616361"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:03:47","slug":"poll-identification-as-liberal-collapses-as-blacks-hispanics-and-non-college-voters-flee-the-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-identification-as-liberal-collapses-as-blacks-hispanics-and-non-college-voters-flee-the-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Identification as \u2018Liberal\u2019 Collapses as Blacks, Hispanics, and Non-College Voters Flee the Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-identification-as-liberal-collapses-as-blacks-hispanics-and-non-college-voters-flee-the-label%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616361&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fewer voters now identify themselves as liberal, according to a new national poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate \u2026 with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years,\u201d says the report (<a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/08\/18\/america-ideology-less-liberal-but-not-necessarily-more-conservative\/\">pdf<\/a>) by Morning Consult, a research firm with offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The enterprise describes itself as \u201ca global decision intelligence company delivering insights and custom market research\u00a0on what people think in real-time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing annual poll is based on research on 8.6 million voters since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The segment of the U.S. electorate that now identifies itself as \u201cvery liberal,\u201d \u201cliberal,\u201d or \u201csomewhat liberal\u201d has declined over the past five years, falling from 34 percent to 27 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Among voters, 39 percent now describe themselves as \u201cvery conservative,\u201d \u201cconservative,\u201d or \u201cslightly conservative.\u201d Five years ago, 38 percent of voters embraced the conservative label.<\/p>\n<p>Moderates are now 28 percent of the electorate, a 4-point increase since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The figure for those uncertain about their political ideology now hovers at 7 percent, up from 3 percent a half-decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse in support for liberalism is driven largely by voters who lack a college degree and by blacks and Hispanics who are moving away from the \u201cliberal\u201d identifier faster than white voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the nonwhite shift is pronounced by education, black and Hispanic voters with a college education have also become less likely to identify as liberal in recent years,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond educational differences, age also appears to play a role in the recession of liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe share of young people\u2014ages 18-34\u2014who identify as liberal has dropped more than the other age groups, followed by smaller declines among voters ages 35-44, 45-64, and those 65 or older, in that order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong each age group, Black and Hispanic voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer voters now identify themselves as liberal, according to a new national poll. \u201cThe Left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate \u2026 with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years,\u201d says the report (pdf) by Morning Consult, a research firm with offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco. 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