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applegrove

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Fri Jan 9, 2015, 07:19 PM Jan 2015

"The ‘liberal’ label is getting more and more popular"

The ‘liberal’ label is getting more and more popular
By Aaron Blake at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/09/the-liberal-label-is-getting-more-and-more-popular/

"SNIP.................


Perhaps the more interesting numbers in the chart, though, are the lowest ones. While Republicans have used the word "liberal" with great gusto to marginalize Democrats over the last couple decades, it's becoming more and more en vogue -- at least among Democrats.

While just 29 percent of Democrats used the L-word in 2000, 44 percent use it today. That's still well shy of the 70 percent of Republicans who identify as "conservative," of course.




.................SNIP"
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