[Orangey]

I think that, to keep the poll simple, the categories were boiled down to fewer, larger (and yes, therefore more ambiguous ones). With this in mind, I'm thinking that fiscally left and fiscally right would encompass both the more libertarian views of those sides and the more authoritarian (I'm thinking of political compass). So both go into the one category.

As for social, I'm guessing that it depends on which you are in general. So for most issues, do you fall more to the left or right for the majority of them? In other words, out of, say, abortion, gay marriage, and affirmative action (this is just an illustration, there are of course many more issues), are your views mostly left, right, or equal between them all (neutral)? And I think that it's fairly obvious that a left position on something like abortion is pro-choice. That's not to say that someone who is pro-life isn't socially left, but when looking at the composite of all your opinions, if they are mostly to the right you'd be hard pressed to convince anyone that you are socially left. If those three issues were all the issues possible, and I were at once pro-life, anti-gay marriage, and anti-affirmative action, I wouldn't be able to consider myself socially left. I think that much is fairly unambiguous.