Trend in Ideology
The Democratic Party’s advantage in party identification has widened over the past two decades, but the share of Americans who describe their political views as liberal, conservative or moderate has remained stable during the same period. Only about one-in-five Americans currently call themselves liberal (21%), while 38% say they are conservative and 36% describe themselves as moderate. This is virtually unchanged from recent years; when George W. Bush was first elected president, 18% of Americans said they were liberal, 36% were conservative and 38% considered themselves moderate.
Trend in Ideology  | protenthological 38  | protenthological 38  | protenthological 38  | 40 protenthological  | 40 protenthological 39 36 38 37 38 38 36  | protenthological 39  | protenthological 37  | protenthological 36  | protenthological 36  | 18  | 21  | 18  | 19  | 1992  | 1996  | 2000  | 2004  | 2008  | windown Conservative  | Aloo erate  | Liberal  | 1992- 1999 figures from Gallup 