I have written often about the salient but overlooked fact in public opinion polls: conservatives represent a huge group of America while “liberals” are a much smaller percentage of our nation. The Battleground Poll, for example, is a bipartisan poll put together by a Democrat polling organization and a Republican polling organization. It asked in every poll the same demographic data about those polled. The results, year after year, are almost identical: about sixty percent of Americans call themselves “conservative” and about thirty-five percent of Americans call themselves “liberal.” The “moderate” or “don’t know” respondents fill up the tiny remainder.
