Michael, re: <<Where did you get these statistics from?>>
Sorry, it's just my own guesstimate, of course. Remember, I was referring to professed liberals -- that is, people who identify themselves publicly as liberals. If anything, the figure of 10% may be too high. Many SI-ers don't identify themselves as anything at all; they are here to discuss stocks, not politics. Even in the Coffee Shop, most threads are non-political. And even on the political threads there can be a good deal of confusing overlap: professed libertarians, for example, tend to be super-conservative on economic matters, but ultra-liberal on social matters.
Nevertheless, my perception is that there are fewer liberals, professed or not, on SI than there are conservatives. (That generally tends to be the case when money is the prime subject of discourse.) Do you have a different perception?
You ask why professed liberals don't start their own thread. As I recall, they have (Sanity is a case in point). But conservatives have generally taken those threads over. You would say it is because their arguments are better. I would suggest it is because conservatives are much more militant. But we are both only speculating.
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