Note, in the statement about methodology Kaiser did not select for any party, only for "estimates for the national population using data from the Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey on sex, age, education, race, Hispanic origin, and region" along with Census data on population density. So our argument is mute anyway.

However, lets take a survey done by Gallup -- your source -- that is newer than 6 months old.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

This one is current since as of early July, (not January reporting on 2016 as is yours).  Plus this actually shows "Republican" v. "Democrat" affiliation, not vague "conservative" versus "liberal" (you are aware there some conservative democrats and liberal republicans right?). The percentages of July are pretty close to the Gallup number from June. Lastly, this study shows that GOP affiliation has fallen every month since Feb. when it was 31%, far short of the 36% "conservative" number of the study you cite.