Liberals Increased to 25% of the Electorate, Moderates Declined.

[retromike22]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

2004
Liberals 21%
Moderates 45%
Conservatives 34%

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=USP00p1

2008:
Liberals 22%
Moderates 44%
Conservatives 34%

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president#exit-polls

2012:
Liberals 25%
Moderates 41%
Conservatives 35%

(Does not equal 100 due to rounding)

[Sasquatch]

Hopefully, the word "progressive" will be retired. Liberal isn't a dirty word even though conservatives spent the 1970s/1980s convincing middle America it was.

[tallguy23]

With the youth vote increasing each year, the world liberal will become an acceptable term. The truth is the Millennial generation is pretty liberal (at least in social/cultural terms). Just looking at my Facebook (not the best indicator I know) the number of self-identified liberals outnumbers conservatives by a lot.

[NOVA Green]

For many young voters the term liberal is increasingly associated with positions on cultural issues (God, gays, and weed) rather than on economic policies.

Also, as the younger generation has experienced the greatest sacrifices during the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly "conservative" is also identified as an ideology associated with older voters who appear increasingly out of touch with the changing social morays and demographics of America in the 2010s.

Granted this increase is also a factor of greater turnout amongst Dems in 2012, as well as some moderate Dems willing to identify with a "liberal" label on economic issues in the Midwest.

[LastVoter]

Hopefully, the word "progressive" will be retired. Liberal isn't a dirty word even though conservatives spent the 1970s/1980s convincing middle America it was.

Now do we really want the left-wingers to label themselves with a right-wing ideology (liberalism).

[badgate]

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[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Hopefully, the word "progressive" will be retired. Liberal isn't a dirty word even though conservatives spent the 1970s/1980s convincing middle America it was.

Now do we really want the left-wingers to label themselves with a right-wing ideology (liberalism).

Since historically the Democratic Party was the right-wing party, why not?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hopefully, the word "progressive" will be retired. Liberal isn't a dirty word even though conservatives spent the 1970s/1980s convincing middle America it was.

Now do we really want the left-wingers to label themselves with a right-wing ideology (liberalism).

Since historically the Democratic Party was the right-wing party, why not?

Because then there stops being any left-wing term in use in mainstream American politics. At least 'progressive' refers to a sort of ridiculously naive and half-assed leftism.