Does anyone have any data on how they voted in '08? I've found data that showed voters describing themselves as libertarians went for Bush 72-20 and 59-36 in '00 and '04, respectively. For 2008, I've only been able to find a pre-election poll that showed libertarians favoring Obama over McCain 53-38.
Where is this pre-election poll? How did they decide who was a libertarian? Obama was the most un-libertarian candidate in the race.
It was a Rasmussen Report: those describing themselves as "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" favored Obama. They comprised 4% of a polling census of 1500. Not a very reliable sampling and a loose definition of the term, but I'm not surprised if many libertarians went with Obama after 8 years of Bush's excesses and McCain's liberal record. I'd like to find some hard, post election data, but my search has been unfruitful thus far.
