OpEdNews - Article: Progressives vs. Liberals. How are they different

What's the difference between a progressive and a liberal-- or, to be more specific, someone who calls his or her self a progressive, rather than a liberal.

While waiting for the PA poll results to come in, and trying to distract myself from what have become increasingly obnoxious pundit commentary on MSNBC and CNN, I checked out the latest zogby poll. They offer crosstabs to subscribers and, a few months ago, I subscribed OEN for the 2008 electioin season.

THis is one piece of the latest poll, posted on April 22, 2008, based on phone calls to PA voters:

								Ideology
Total	Prog	Lib	Mod	Cons	VCons	Libert
%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Hillary Clinton	48.7	30.0	49.7	52.9	55.2	76.0	32.4
Barack Obama	42.2	58.5	43.3	38.1	34.5	67.6
Someone else	3.6	2.1	1.9	4.9	4.7	12.8
NS	5.5	9.4	5.2	4.2	5.6	11.1
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Liberals support Hilary, while Progressives support Obama, almost two to one. I'm going to speculate that among the progressives who support Hillary, a big majority of them are women. And look at the total absence of support for Obama among the very conservatives.

In recent interviews with progressive bloggers, it's become clear that they don't think, based on issue positions and advisors, that Obama is a progressive.

Here are some more Zogby poll results that give perspectives on progressives vs. liberals:

110. Overall, do you think free trade is good or bad for Pennsylvania?								Ideology
Total	Prog	Lib	Mod	Cons	VCons	Libert
%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Good	33.0	38.9	31.7	32.8	28.0	37.5	50.0
Bad	47.2	41.7	44.9	50.3	51.0	49.6	34.6
NS	19.8	19.5	23.4	17.0	21.0	12.8	15.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0