Phillies 2008 Commissions Scientific Poll For the first time in living memory, a Libertarian Presidential campaign has commissioned a complete scientific poll of the general voting public.

Past Libertarian campaigns have commissioned individual questions or blocks of questions, but for this election cycle, the George Phillies Libertarian Presidential campaign paid for a full poll with complete control over the entire question list.

The telephone survey of 1000 Likely Voters («LVs» in the poll results) was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on November 8 and 11. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, is an independent public opinion research firm using automated polling methodology and procedures licensed from Rasmussen Reports, LLC.

George Phillies believes this is a major step forward not only for his campaign but for the Libertarian Party. «My good friend, the late Bill Bradford,lamented that Libertarians did not poll with any frequency on basic support issues,»

Dr. Phillies said. «In honor of his memory, I give you my first poll question and its response. I also polled, as a final question, about two vs all-party debates.»

The first poll question: There are many political parties in the United States with that have various beliefs on each issue. Generally speaking, which political party do your views come closest to…. the Republican party, the Democratic party, the Libertarian party or are you truly independent? a. Republican b. Democrat c. Libertarian d. Some other political party e. You are truly independent f. Not sure LV’s Male Female Republican 31% 34% 28% Democrat 37% 31% 44% Libertarian 6% 8% 4% Some other political party 8% 10% 5% You are truly independent 16% 16% 15% Not sure 3% 1% 4%

We Americans are about as unanimous as we get. By more than 3 to 1 (75 to 22) we want all-party debates.

The exact question and its response: Recent elections have featured television debates limited to the Democratic and Republican Party Presidential candidates. In 2008, would you prefer only a two party debate or do you prefer debates between all candidates? a. Two-party debates b. Debates between all candidates c. A mixture of both d. Not sure Response: Debates Should Be…. Two-party debates 22% Debates between All candidates 64% Mixture of both 11% Not sure 3% Phillies 2008 hope that you have found these answers interesting. We’ll have more of them as the week goes on. Until then, Happy Thanksgiving!