Poll: How Liberal or Conservative Are Americans?

Rasmussen Reports has taken a look at how conservative or liberal the voters are in different aspects of their every day life. They found that 41% of the voters think of themselves as conservative when it comes to the issues of taxes, government spending and the regulation of private business while 41% consider themselves to be moderates and 12% say they are liberal.

Meanwhile, when it comes to social issues, 37% think of themselves as conservatives, 30% say they are moderate and 30% liberal. This includes issues like abortion, praying in public and the separation of church and state.

Breaking it down by political parties, 67% of the Republicans think of themselves as being conservative on fiscal matters while 50% of the Democrats and 49% of the independent voters think of themselves as being moderates when it comes to fiscal matters.

When it comes to the social issues, the figures are a bit different with 61% of the Republican voters considering themselves to be conservative while 43% of the Democrats say they are liberal. With the independent voters, they could not be split any more evenly than they are with 30% saying they are conservative it comes to social issues, 35% considering themselves to be moderate and 33% liberal.

Then they took the fiscal and social issues and put the results together. The largest segment of the population, 24% say they are conservative on both the fiscal and social issues while 17% consider themselves to be moderate both fiscally and socially, 14% who say they are moderate on the fiscal issues and conservative on the social ones 10% who consider themselves to be fiscally conservative and moderate on the social issues, 9% who say they are liberal on both the social and fiscal issues, and lastly, 6% who say they are conservative on the fiscal issues, but liberal on the social ones.