Reply #125: It's all relative.

[Forkboy]

If the poster believes that DUers are the "leftest of the left" he's wrong, with very few exceptions over the years. If he wants to include a qualifier that he only meant that among Democrats than it's far closer to being correct, and those polls you're eager to post would have some meaning.

For the most part, DUers are certainly less left than many people I know personally, and even the most lefty DUer I can think of off the top of my head isn't as left as many people I know well (for instance, I'm considered the most RW among a some of my friends, and you know me well enough here to safely put me in with the lefty contingent on DU....speaking of contrast). There's a bigger spectrum than what's seen here on DU. There's a big ole left that aren't Democrats at all, and those are the ones that make the comment, as posted, wrong.