Bull Shit Rasmussen Poll

J.J. Jackson* | July 8, 2008

Either Rasmussen does not know what a “libertarian” is or they let people lie to them in order to generate a “shock” poll:

Libertarian voters make up 4% of the nation’s likely voters and they favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 53% to 38% margin. Three percent (3%) would vote for some other candidate and 5% are not sure. These results, from an analysis of 15,000 Likely Voter interviews conducted by Rasmussen Reports, challenges the conventional wisdom which assumes that strong support for a Libertarian candidate would hurt John McCain.

In June, Rasmussen Reports asked 15,000 Likely Voters if they were fiscally conservative, moderate, or liberal and if they were socially conservative, moderate, or liberal. This created a total of 16 possible combinations (not sure was a fourth option for both questions). However, 87% of voters fit into one of seven combinations. Libertarians, defined as fiscally conservative and socially liberal, are the smallest of these seven combinations.

“Libertarians” are not socially liberal. We haven’t been since the progressives co-opted the term. Libertarians are socially conservative in that we believe in the equal creation of all mankind, unalienable rights stemming from God and limited government. None of which are what “liberals” stand for today. Now back in 1776 they did, but not today.

“Libertarians” voting for Obama my ass! Come on Scott! You are smarter than this! What you found was that the “liberaltarians” will vote for Obama, not the “libertarians”!

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