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Originally Posted by Superlucky
Such a person may exist, but they are quite rare. He or she would have to be socially conservative on some issues and socially liberal on others - in other words, s/he would possess no ideology. Socially and fiscally many people do not line up with the two main US parties (e.g. socially conservative fiscally liberal Dixiecrats and socially liberal fiscally conservative Libertarians), but that is not what we are talking about.
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There are many Catholics that vote Democrat, believe in welfare programs for the poor, assisting minorities, but believe in abstinence only sex-ed. They also may have read some studies on the media and understand that a claim of media bias to the left is not without merit, such as the following report from pew research:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1001/campaign-media
It appears that when someone makes a claim that certain media outlets have a bias to the left, that person is often labeled as a right-leaning conservative. I would venture to guess, however, that quite a few independents understand that there have been studies that support the claim.