Rasmussen is not rational with YOU Jake. You are
part of the 2% of the far left libs. But, there are about 40% who say they are conservatives in America to the 21% who say they are liberals. So Rasmussen may be more accepted and probably much closer to reality than you are.
perhaps that has less to do with shared left of center ideology and more to do with the fact that most people you might call "liberal" in fact are moderate? or see themselves as moderate.
I can tell you that there are self-identified "conservatives" on this board who are. in fact extraordinarily radical.
hence the problem with Self-identification....at least as I see it.