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rights, same-sex marriages, and affirmative action.

* 15 percent believe conservatives support same-sex marriage or are not
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But the label right wing is less clear to many people than conservative. the 59 percent who say
that right-wingers support cutting taxes) are about 10 points lower than those
who give the expected answers when describing conservatives. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 68 6 26
Cutting taxes % 53 16 30
Affirmative action % 51 15 34
Abortion rights % 50 19 31
Gun control % 47 21 32
Gay rights % 44 26 30
Same-sex marriage % 26 43 31

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.com), Paris-based
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PERCEPTIONS OF RIGHT-WINGERS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
right-wingers as people who support or oppose . ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Gay rights % 64 18 19
Abortion rights % 61 18 20
Same-sex marriage % 59 21 20
Affirmative action % 59 15 26
Gun control % 50 29 21
Moral values % 40 29 31
Cutting taxes % 30 45 25

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PERCEPTIONS OF MODERATES
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
moderates as people who support or oppose . This
online sample is not a probability sample.

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Likewise, the label left-winger is broadly perceived to be similar to
liberal except that more people are not sure what it means.
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* Fully 37 percent believe that liberals either oppose gun control (24%)
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* 23 percent think that conservatives support abortion rights or are not
sure. More
people don't know what the phrase means with between 20 and 27 percent saying
they are not sure whether a right-winger would support or oppose each of the
seven policy positions. Figures for age, sex, race, education, region and household
income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual
proportions in the population.
In theory, with probability samples of this size, one could say with 95
percent certainty that the results have a sampling error of plus or minus 2
percentage points.

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Overall, therefore, people are more likely to see moderates and
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Political Labels: Majorities of U.S. Adults Have a Sense of What Conservative Liberal Right Wing or Left Wing Means But Many Do Not

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* 50 percent believe that conservatives support gun control or are not
sure.

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PERCEPTIONS OF INDEPENDENTS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States , do you think of
independents as people who support or oppose . Known for The Harris Poll(R) and for pioneering Internet-based
research methods, Harris Interactive conducts proprietary and public research
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Most people, it appears, understand these labels in pretty much the same
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* Significant but smaller numbers do not believe or are not sure if
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questions. We may be "conservative" on some issues and "liberal" on others,
but it's the specifics that
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PERCEPTIONS OF CONSERVATIVES
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Perception of Conservatives
While most people gave the expected answers, substantial minorities think
that conservatives oppose cutting taxes (19%) or are not sure (11%) whether
they favor or oppose cutting taxes. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 61 14 25
Cutting taxes % 59 17 24
Gun control % 35 42 23
Affirmative action % 27 46 27
Abortion rights % 15 63 22
Gay rights % 15 65 21
Same-sex marriage % 10 69 20

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.

Methodology
The Harris Poll(R) was conducted online within the United States between
January 11 and 16, 2005 among a nationwide cross section of 2,209 adults aged
18 and over. They include refusals to be interviewed (non-
response), question wording and question order, and weighting.S.

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In other words, 30 percent of all adults
do not give the expected response that conservatives favor cutting taxes.
Moderates for example are seen by many people to resemble conservatives in
supporting moral values and tax cuts but to resemble liberals in supporting
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Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 78 10 12
Cutting taxes % 70 19 11
Gun control % 40 50 10
Affirmative action % 26 54 20
Abortion rights % 13 77 10
Gay rights % 8 81 11
Same-sex marriage % 8 85 7

TABLE 2
PERCEPTIONS OF LIBERALS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
liberals as people who support or oppose .

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Perception of Moderates and Independents
Unsurprisingly, perceptions of moderates and independents fall between
those of conservatives and liberals and between right and left-wingers.. Propensity score weighting was also used to
adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.uspoliticstoday. It is published by the IPD Group
which specializes in media monitoring services.

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there are some interesting, possibly surprising findings.
After reviewing these findings, Bogart, commented that, "The confusion over
what the widely used political labels actually mean reflects their common use
as epithets rather than as true descriptions of people's beliefs. ?"

Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Abortion rights % 84 6 10
Gay rights % 82 7 10
Same-sex marriage % 78 9 13
Affirmative action % 74 9 17
Gun control % 63 24 13
Moral values % 54 28 18
Cutting taxes % 39 44 17

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding..novatris.uspoliticstoday .com/pr
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Base: All adults
Support Oppose Not Sure
Moral values % 52 6 41
Cutting taxes % 48 10 42
Abortion rights % 45 13 42
Affirmative action % 42 11 48
Gay rights % 40 18 42
Gun control % 36 21 43
Same-sex marriage % 34 23 42

Note: Percentages may not add up exactly to 100% due to rounding.S.S.

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, Journalists , political activists,
and many others routinely use political labels to describe politicians and
policies as conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing.

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But substantial numbers of
people don't know where conservatives and liberals stand on those and other
issues. Smaller numbers, but still
pluralities , believe that independents favor tax cuts, abortion rights,
affirmative action, gay rights, gun control and same sex marriage.

Harris Interactive is indebted to the distinguished social scientist , Leo
Bogart, who suggested that we measure what political labels mean to people.

TABLE 4
PERCEPTIONS OF LEFT-WINGERS
"Thinking now of the political climate in the United States, do you think of
left-wingers as people who support or oppose .

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Large majorities believe that conservatives favor
moral values, cutting taxes, and oppose same-sex marriage, gay rights, and
abortion rights. It is
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Perception of Liberals
While large majorities believe liberals favor abortion rights, gay rights,
and same-sex marriage , substantiated minorities give more surprising
responses:

* Fully 39 percent believe liberals favor cutting taxes, and 17 percent
are not sure.

Perception of Right Wing and Left Wing
As one would expect, many people think that right-wingers support and
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