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Luke deGruchy's avatar

What about groups that don't fit nearly on the left-right axis, like libertarians?

David Clinton's avatar

There's no obvious way to squeeze libertarian outcomes from the CES data. Although I think I'll try to take a closer look, because there might be enough questions that touch on government spending, effectiveness, and reliability to create some sort of proxy. Although, all things being considered, I'd suspect that libertarians are the most healthy cohort of all. :)

John Chittick's avatar

That's a question I would have asked as well. I would never be interested in a survey of such length particularly the way pollsters like to box political opinion into the left-right binary response. As for the content, I came across this gem the other day:

“Communism and other branches of collectivism are the cold sores of the disaffected and anxious and there are always new ways to brand them as fashionable.” - El Gato Malo

and this classic:

“If you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed; if you do read them, you are misinformed.” - Mark Twain

Dean's avatar

If you have two and a half hours and the willingness to fill out an electoral survey, surely that says something about demographics.

David Clinton's avatar

That's a great question. I just asked ChatGPT how the whole process works and here's the response: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a09cd0a-71ec-83ea-9bf9-9a086ec9f3c7