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Story Highlights Conservatives remain largest ideological group, at 38% Liberals up one point to 24%, the highest yet Conservative-liberal gap now smallest in Gallup trends

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Conservatives continued to outnumber moderates and liberals in the U.S. population in 2014, as they have since 2009. However, their 14-percentage-point edge over liberals last year, 38% vs. 24%, is the smallest in Gallup's trends since 1992. The percentage of U.S. adults identifying themselves as politically conservative in 2014 was unchanged from 2013, as was the percentage of moderates, at 34%, while the percentage considering themselves liberal rose a percentage point for the third straight year.

When Gallup initiated this measure of self-identified political ideology in 1992, the largest group of Americans called themselves moderate, while slightly more than one-third identified as conservative and fewer than one in five as liberal. The conservative-liberal gap at that time was 19 points, and by 1996 it had widened to 22 points, its highest across the trend. Since then, the liberal percentage has swelled and the percentage of moderates has shrunk from 40% to 34%.

These results are based on combined data from Gallup's standalone surveys of U.S. adults, totaling between 16,000 and 45,000 interviews for each year.

Political Polarization Inched Further Ahead in 2014

The one-point uptick in the percentage liberal in 2014 stems from one-point increases in liberal self-identification among both independents and Democrats. The small percentage of Republicans identifying as liberals stayed the same. Longer term, since 2000, all of the rise in liberalism on this measure is owing to Democrats.

At the same time, Republicans' strong tendency to identify with the conservative moniker stayed the same in 2014 at 70%, just under the 73% high point reached in 2012. The percentage of Republicans who consider themselves conservative remains slightly higher today than it was through the mid-2000s,and the pattern is nearly the same with independents. At the same time, fewer Democrats call themselves conservative compared with a decade ago.

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The government and the opposition in Canberra are watching the wash-up with keen interest. If Labor holds on to government in the state after the Liberal Party swept to power in Tasmania at the weekend, South Australia would have denied the conservative parties a clean sweep across the federal and state landscapes.

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The number of self-identified conservatives continued to outpace the number of moderates and liberals in the U.S. population in 2014, though the gap between conservatives and liberals was the smallest in Gallups trends since 1992.

The percentage of adults who identified themselves as politically conservative was 38 percent unchanged from 2013. The percentage of moderates, 34 percent, was also unchanged, while 24 percent considered themselves liberal, the third straight year that number increased by a percentage point.

In 1992, meanwhile, about four in 10 Americans identified themselves as moderate, with conservatives at 36 percent and liberals at 17 percent.

Results were based on aggregated telephone interviews from 15 Gallup polls conducted in 2014, with a random sample of 16,479 U.S. adults; the margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point.

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Vote coming Jan. 19

Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune residents will soon know who their Liberal candidate will be for the 2015 provincial election.

Nominations opened last Wednesday and close Jan. 12. Voting will take place Mon., Jan. 19.

Three residents of the Coast of Bays said in 2014 that they would be seek the nomination - Bill Carter of Harbour Breton, Conrad Collier of St. Albans and Mildred Skinner of Harbour Breton.

The candidates outlined some of their views in an earlier Advertiser article.

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Carter said one of the key issues in the district is the co-existence of its two main industries the traditional fishery and the aquaculture industry.

Its well known that the aquaculture industry has been a huge economic boost to the region in the past eight years, he said. We really need to make sure the industry is managed properly, particularly from a bio-security perspective.

We need to protect the long-term stability, viability and sustainability of the industry which has to be managed in a constructive manner.

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