October, 2006

Southern Conservatism, Libertarian Estrangement

by Harold Meyerson
The Conversation
October 17th, 2006

The Davids, Boaz and Kirby, have produced an important work of political scholarship in their assessment of the libertarian vote in American politics. For my part, I’d like to look at the considerable shift towards the Democrats that they document among libertarian voters between 2000 and 2004, which exists at the presidential (19 points), congressional [...]

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The Libertarian Vote

Speaking of the libertarian vote, Cato Institute executive vice president David Boaz with David Kirby, executive director of the America’s Future Foundation, have just published a new Cato study exploring just that: We find 9 to 13 percent libertarians in the Gallup surveys, 14 percent in the Pew Research Center Typology Survey, and 13 percent [...]

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