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Respondents place the Republican 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: 68% answered “Conservative” in ANES, 2024.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 12 points on average across all answers, in ANES.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANES | Placement of the Republican Party on liberal-conservative scale Republican Party - R’s rating of party on liberal/conservative scale Caveat: Reference scale; ANES labels 'extremely' and 'slightly' differ from CES 'very' and 'somewhat' | identical | Extremely liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Slightly liberal → Slightly liberal; Moderate, middle of the road → Moderate/middle of the road; Slightly conservative → Slightly conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Extremely conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Ideological placement of the Republican Party | Ideological placement of the Republican Party How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Republican Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat' vs ANES 'extremely'/'slightly'; online survey | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Slightly liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate/middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Slightly conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of the Republican Party's ideology | Rating of the Republican Party's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Republican Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat' vs ANES 'extremely'/'slightly'; online survey | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Slightly liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate/middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Slightly conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rating of the Republican Party's ideology | Rating of the Republican Party's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Republican Party] |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. ANES → mixed mode (2012).
Groups differ from everyone by 11 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 → Slightly liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate/middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Slightly conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |
| CES: Rated ideology of the Republican Party | Rated ideology of the Republican Party How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The Republican Party] Caveat: CES labels 'very'/'somewhat' vs ANES 'extremely'/'slightly'; online survey | equivalent | Very Liberal → Liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Slightly liberal; Middle of the Road → Moderate/middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Slightly conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Conservative |