Everything depends on the deiioitfnn of Moderate. Given the outcome of the 2008 elections, a credible case can be made that a majority of Moderates are actually liberal, or at least left-leaning. Therefore, you can't simply add Moderates as a group to both the Conservative and Liberal columns, and make a judgment based on their respective totals.Any accurate assessment would require either: a deeper poll, which asks self-identified Moderates ideological questions to determine their leanings; or else a simpler poll, which asks voters to self-identify as either Liberal or Conservative, with no Moderate choice offered. Otherwise, it's impossible to make a credible case one way or the other.
by Michelle 04:31:08 AM 2012.10.03 |