The non-partisan Utah Foundation research organization released results Thursday of a poll that compared delegates to voters in their parties. It asked a series of questions to allow respondents to choose between positions that are traditionally liberal or conservative.
“While 27 percent of Republican voters were ‘consistently conservative,’ 46 percent of Republican delegates fell in the same category,” it said. In other words, GOP delegates are much further to the right than typical Republican voters.
“On the Democratic side, 55 percent of the voters were ‘consistently liberal,’ while 75 percent of the delegates fell in this category,” it said — showing Democratic delegates are further to the left than most of that party’s voters.
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