# How many American libertarian voters are there? **URL:** **By** David Boaz **Published:** November 30, 2012 --- David Boaz, the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, explains how various pollsters come to differing conclusions on the percentage of American voters with libertarian-leaning sympathies. Boaz also shares how he, David Kirby, and Emily Ekins came to the estimation that 15-18% of the population could be described as "libertarian voters" in their new e-book, _The Libertarian Vote: Swing Voters, Tea Parties, and the Fiscally Conservative, Socially Liberal Center_, which is available here: http://amzn.to/VaQmFk. Produced by Evan Banks and Aaron Powell.