You know, since there seems to be a pretty reasonable crowd of people here discussing politics, I'm surprised you're all still wasting your time trying to identify "left" and "right". The political continuum really does nothing to help identify voters or levels of support. Voters will look at the issues that hit closest to home and vote based on the tendancies of the parties in question. None but the most ardent idealogues will vote for a party because it simply professes itself to be on the right or the left. Here in Canada, you'll find more libertarians in the Conservative Party than any other, and we all get lumped in with the hardcore social conservatives. Imagine our frustration when we get denounced as homophobes when we work within our own party to acheive goals like support for same-sex marriage (or better yet, getting the State the hell out of that business altogether). Ahh well, so-cons are usually old and will die soon...
Anyhow, before I digress further, you all probably shouldn't bother with the left and right business so much. That's just something campaigners aim towards people who just don't know any better.
