Wallstreet Journal Political Ideology Poll

[Sandy Johnson]

This was an interesting take on it. I just used my google account to view the article:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/election-2024-quiz-poll-ideology-7533f46b

My dots don't really line up with anything, but WSJ is claiming libertarian.

EDIT: I'm gonna see if I can copy pasta as much as I can of the "interactive poll"

What Type of Voter Are You? Take Our Poll to Find Out​

A WSJ/NORC survey shows a more nuanced picture of the U.S. electorate than simply red and blue​

June 11, 2024 5:00 am ET


America’s polarized politics often lead us to think of the nation in terms of red and blue, with voters divided almost evenly into the Democratic and Republican parties. But voters’ opinions are complex—a mix of views that don’t fit neatly as either conservative or liberal.
The Wall Street Journal and NORC at the University of Chicago polled nearly 1,200 voters on a range of issues and beliefs. The pollsters created separate indexes for views on economic issues, social issues and faith in civic institutions, placing people on a left-right scale. Take the survey to find out where you fall.

Views on the economy​

The economic issues index was derived from questions covering government regulation, taxes, trade and other matters.

Views on social issues​

The social-issue questions covered topics such as immigration, abortion, discrimination, diversity and racism. Respondents’ answers were scored on a left-right scale and combined to create a measure of their overall position on social issues.

Views on civic issues​

Lastly, respondents were asked a series of questions related to civic confidence: their pride in America; if life has gotten better or worse; and whether the system is stacked against them.

How voters in each group compare

By Race​

Ideology	White, non-Hispanic	Black, non-Hispanic	Hispanic	Other
Traditional liberal	68%	8%	15%	9%
Disaffected pluralist	63%	17%	10%	9%
Libertarian	68%	12%	14%	6%
Populist	68%	16%	12%	4%
Traditional conservative	85%	4%	7%	5%

By Age​

Ideology	18 to 29	30 to 39	40 to 59	60 to 64	65 or older
Traditional liberal	7%	17%	35%	8%	33%
Disaffected pluralist	24%	18%	32%	6%	20%
Libertarian	27%	18%	30%	6%	19%
Populist	15%	16%	40%	9%	21%
Traditional conservative	7%	12%	27%	17%	37%

By Gender​

Ideology	Women	Men
Traditional liberal	52%	48%
Disaffected pluralist	66%	34%
Libertarian	47%	53%
Populist	52%	48%
Traditional conservative	38%	62%

By Income​

Ideology	Less than $50K	$50K to under $100K	$100K or more
Traditional liberal	28%	30%	41%
Disaffected pluralist	34%	36%	30%
Libertarian	28%	34%	39%
Populist	49%	24%	27%
Traditional conservative	40%	28%	32%

By Location​

Ideology	Urban	Suburban	Rural
Traditional liberal	26%	55%	19%
Disaffected pluralist	25%	56%	18%
Libertarian	24%	47%	30%
Populist	25%	51%	25%
Traditional conservative	11%	51%	38%

Note: Totals may not equal 100% due to rounding.
Methodology:

The political typologies defined here build on previous work by Lee Drutman using the Views of the Electorate Research Survey.

NORC at the University of Chicago conducted a poll of 1,163 registered voters Oct. 19-24. NORC then identified a series of survey questions to represent views on 12 broad topic areas: moral issues; economic inequality; government intervention; diversity/racism; the social safety net; whether “people like me” are on the decline; immigration; pride in America; attitudes toward whites and Christians; gender roles; foreign trade; and whether politics is a rigged game. Responses to individual questions were scored on a scale from traditionally liberal to traditionally conservative. For topics comprising more than one question, scores from each question were averaged. (This interactive uses a slightly smaller subset of questions for efficiency, but results are statistically comparable to the full question set.)

From the 12 topic areas, NORC formulated summary indexes of economic issues, social issues and civic confidence. Depending on where a respondent falls on those three scores determines which of the five ideological categories they belong to: traditional liberal; disaffected pluralist; populist; libertarian; or traditional conservative. Responses are weighted to match the target population as represented by census data.

This article will be updated as news develops.

Dov Friedman, Kara Dapena and Maureen Linke contributed to this article

Write to Aaron Zitner at [email protected] and James Benedict at [email protected]

 

[Splib]

Paywall. I let my subscribe expire as they touted Covid vaccine and they were calling Trump's election fraud claims lies.........

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Paywall. I let my subscribe expire as they touted Covid vaccine and they were calling Trump's election fraud claims lies.........

I just said I "already had an account" and then selected my google login as the account and it let me in. I've noticed sometimes that works with the NYT or WSJ, and sometimes I get told my trial has expired. Seemed to work this time.

 

[Texas97]

define civic confidence.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Libertarian compared to the two authoritarian parties, but far from actually libertarian. Go read mises.org (libertarian), then articles from the WSJ and compare.

Yeah, not claiming it as I'm waaaaay out there compared to whatever averages they pull. For those that didn't want to try and get into the poll, these are the 5 ideologies they're claiming voters fall into these days:

...and yet somehow only two party options is a good idea.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

define civic confidence.

This is their definition. If you have read any of my previous posts here, you're probably not surprised where I landed:

 

[Slander]

Yeah, not claiming it as I'm waaaaay out there compared to whatever averages they pull. For those that didn't want to try and get into the poll, these are the 5 ideologies they're claiming voters fall into these days:

...and yet somehow only two party options is a good idea.

I'm retarded and mis read your post, I thought the WSJ was listed as a libertarian publication .

Their scoring categories are probably skewed. I bet if your civic confidence was low and you viewed America as getting worse, they would toss you in the Democrat pile and not even in the libertarian pile

 

[Sandy Johnson]

I bet if your civic confidence was low and you viewed America as getting worse, they would toss you in the Democrat pile and not even in the libertarian pile

Updated the OP with as much as I could copy/pasta of the original article. I think if my civic confidence was low, they would have filed me under "Populist" due to my views on economic regulation.

Also for the "poll" there were only a few questions per category, and some of the questions were very black and white when in reality they should be shades of grey.