Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Most voters still believe that Obama is more liberal than they are, while just one-out-of-four say that they share the same ideological views as him

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 54% of likely U.S. voters think that Obama is more ideologically liberal than they are, while only 13% view him as more conservative. Twenty-four percent (24%) say that their political views are about the same as Obama's. The number who see Obama as more liberal than they are stayed at 57% in three-out-of-four previous surveys conducted since August of 2010. That number climbed to 61% in late February 2011. The number who view Obama as more conservative ranged from 9% to 12% in that same period. The number of voters who say that they share about the same political views as Obama ties the lowest result measured since August 2010. Forty-five percent (45%) of Democratic voters, however, say that their views are about the same as Obama’s, although that ties the lowest finding to date. The number of Democrats who felt this way peaked at 60% in late February 2011. Eighty-four percent of Republicans and 57% of voters not affiliated with either major political party feel that Obama is more liberal than they are. Twenty percent of unaffiliated voters share about the same ideological views as Obama.

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