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Respondents place the Democratic Party on a 7-point liberal-to-conservative scale (ANES 1972-2024, CES 2018-2024); CES wording is 'very liberal' to 'very conservative' and the ANES scale is labeled slightly differently.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 77% answered “Liberal” in ANES, 2024.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 10 points on average across all answers, in ANES.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANES | Placement of the Democratic Party on liberal-conservative scale We hear a lot of talk these days about liberals and conservatives. I’m going to show you (1996 AND LATER: Here is) a seven-point scale on which the political views that people might hold are arranged from extremely liberal to extremely conservative.
Where would you place the Democratic Party {on this scale}?
(7-POINT SCALE SHOWN TO R) Caveat: Reference question; endpoints labeled 'extremely' | identical | Extremely liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Slightly liberal → Liberal; Moderate, middle of the road → Moderate; Slightly conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Extremely conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Ideological placement of the Democratic Party | Ideological placement of the Democratic Party How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Democratic Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat'; asked in a rating battery | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of the Democratic Party's ideology | Rating of the Democratic Party's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Democratic Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat'; asked in a rating battery | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of the Democratic Party's ideology | Rating of the Democratic Party's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Democratic Party] |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Groups differ from everyone by 9 points on average across all answers, in ANES.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.
| equivalent |
| Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rated ideology of the Democratic Party | Rated ideology of the Democratic Party How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Democratic Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat'; asked in a rating battery | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate; Somewhat Conservative → Conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |