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Poll shows shift to the middle

Many students identify as politically moderate

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 16, 2005

A Yale Daily News poll of more than 200 randomly selected undergraduates indicates that Yale may not be as overwhelmingly liberal as popular conceptions on campus may suggest.

In the poll, 49 percent of students identified themselves as liberal, 15 percent as conservative, and 36 percent as moderate. Forty-four percent of students identified with the Democratic Party, 15 percent with the Republican, and 41 percent with third parties or as independents.

Yale President Richard Levin said he is not surprised by the results, but was interested in the fact that they seem to...

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