It used to be soccer mom's or Nascar dads. These were the ways that politicians referred to the hip swing voter at the time. What is the new swing voter? Libertarians.
My former colleague David Kirby, now executive director of America’s Future Foundation, obtained data sets from Gallup, Pew Research Center, and the American National Election Studies. He did some original calculations to find libertarians in those polls, and then he and I wrote up the results. Without scooping our own story, I’ll just say that we found that a substantial percentage of voters are libertarian — not libertarians who can compare and contrast Hayek and Rand, but people whose views on broad issues distinguish them from both liberals and conservatives.
It looks again like I'm a hip guy.
Posted by psugrad98 at October 11, 2006 10:05 AM | TrackBack
