FiveThirtyEight: No, conservatives aren’t disappearing or anything : BY MATT VESPA

FiveThirtyEight: No, conservatives aren’t disappearing or anything : BY MATT VESPA

The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll and Gallup reported on the shrinking conservative base and rise in liberal voter identification in the country.   http://www.gallup.com/poll/183491/republican-conservative-base-shrinks.aspx     http://www.gallup.com/poll/166787/liberal-self-identification-edges-new-high-2013.aspx

"Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015," reads the Journal's headline, but is a three percent increase in liberal voter identification a surge? Moreover, liberals still represent fewer than 30 percent of voters, so how is this a "big comeback?"

Via WSJ:       http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/07/liberals-make-big-comeback-in-2015-poll-analysis-finds/

In three national polls conducted so far in 2015, the analysis found that 26% of registered voters identified themselves as liberals — up from 23% in 2014. At the same time, the share of voters identifying as conservatives dropped to 33% from 37% in 2014.

The analysis by GOP pollster Bill McInturff, who looked at survey data from 2010 to 2015, found that the biggest ideological shifts came among women, young people, Latinos and well-educated voters, as well as people in the West and in cities.

From 2010 through 2014, there was little overall variation in the share of people identifying themselves as conservative, moderate and liberal, with conservatives either a plurality or tied with moderates. But that stability seems to be ending this year. For the first time since 2010, conservatives are no longer a plurality: 38% identify as moderates, compared with the 33% who identify as conservative and 26% as liberal.                                                                                                              http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/12/fivethirtyeight-no-conservatives-arent-disappearing-or-anything/  

Re: FiveThirtyEight: No, conservatives aren’t disappearing or anything : BY MATT VESPA

considering recent polls say a majority of people dont identify with a political party id say your both going down the drain as far as political parties go.