A few days ago, a potentially troubling report for Republicans came out: Fewer Americans were identifying as “conservative” than at any point in the past five years. According to polling conducted this year by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, just 33 percent of voters called themselves conservative. That’s down from 37 percent last year and 39 percent in 2010. …
Still, I’m not ready to declare this a trend; data from the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests that the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey may be an outlier. CONT.
Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight