Posted by Orin Kerr:
The Politics of Volokh Conspiracy Readers:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_08-2007_07_14.shtml#1184202757
We've now had more than 2,400 responses to [1]the reader poll on your
political views, and I find the results really interesting. The single
biggest category was self-identified libertarians, 29% of the
responses. That's not surprising: we're a libertarian-leaning group,
even if we sometimes occupy the [2]Ninth Circle of Libertarian Hell.
I was surprised by some of the results, though. In particular, there
was an almost perfect symmetry between right-of-center and
left-of-center responses:
I'm very conservative 11%
I'm moderately conservative 18%
I'm in the center 7%
I'm moderately liberal 18%
I'm very liberal 8%
According to these figures, 29% of responses identified readers as
right-of-center, and 26% identified readers as left-of-center.
Further, 43% identified themselves as being moderates in one way or
another (moderate conservatives, centrists, or moderate liberals). In
contrast, only 19% of responses identified readers as strongly on the
left or right.
It's not scientific, of course, but I still think it's very
interesting. Incidentally, I found the free Pollhost software very
easy to use; I'll probably be doing more polls on occasion in the
future to gauge reader response to current events and stuff like that.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who participated.
References
1.
http://poll.pollhost.com/T3JpbktlcnIJMTE4NDEzNjc5MQlFRUVFRUUJMDAwMDAwCUFyaWFsCUFzc29ydGVk/
2.
http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/06/30/nine-circles-libertarian-hell
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