Fewer voters now identify themselves as liberal, according to a new national poll.
“The Left is losing the battle for the minds of the American electorate … with voters decreasingly identifying as liberal in recent years,” says the report (pdf) by Morning Consult, a research firm with offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco.
The enterprise describes itself as “a global decision intelligence company delivering insights and custom market research on what people think in real-time.”
The ongoing annual poll is based on research on 8.6 million voters since 2017.
The segment of the U.S. electorate that now identifies itself as “very liberal,” “liberal,” or “somewhat liberal” has declined over the past five years, falling from 34 percent to 27 percent….