Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 02/2010

The Libertarian Vote in the Age of Obama

David Kirby, David Boaz

January 2010

The Cato Institute

Abstract

Libertarian - or fiscally conservative, socially liberal - voters are often torn between their aversions to the Republicans' social conservatism and the Democrats' fiscal irresponsibility. Yet libertarians rarely factor into pundits' and pollsters' analyses.