The People's Line

The People's Line

The demographics of progressives and socialists

Some rare insights from an unusual CNN poll

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Carl Beijer
Sep 27, 2025
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Mainstream polling about people who identify as progressive (as opposed to liberal) is rare. Polling about people who identify as democratic socialists is rarer still. And polling that actually provides demographic crosstabs about both groups is so rare that I’ve only ever seen numbers like this one or twice in the past — but CNN, for whatever reason, d…

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