Operationally, “lapsed” refers to self-identified members of a religious tradition who attend services no more than several times a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Grace] Reference

I am a staff person for a nonprofit and a self-identified techie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information Age Volunteerism - Open Sourced! Crowdsourced!] Reference

The Democrats have a 13-point self-identified lead over Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2008] Reference

And I think almost a moderate -- a majority of self-identified moderates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2003] Reference

But liberals, self-identified liberals, only comprise 20 percent of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference

Then he's trending up among Hispanics, women and self-identified Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008] Reference

Those who have self-identified themselves as Christians have gone down by 10 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2009] Reference

ROLLINS: The largest plurality of voters in American today is self-identified as independents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 25, 2009] Reference

This is tricky for self-identified Republicans who aren't as adept at self-hatred as Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Dupuy: Breaking the Eleventh Commandment] Reference

And 35 percent -- 34 percent self-identified conservatives versus 22 percent self identified liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2008] Reference

Most of the self-identified bisexuals interviewed for this article would not qualify under these terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bisexuality] Reference

I once submitted a new account application on which the client self-identified as "moderately aggressive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Clients Distrust Advisors] Reference

In Massachusetts 33% of black voters who cast ballots in the Democratic primary self-identified as independents.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right] Reference

HOLMES: It has been fascinating to me that in Virginia, Obama did best among self-identified conservative Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2008] Reference

CROWLEY: George McGovern, a self-identified bleeding heart liberal, dedicated his library with Bill Clinton, centrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2006] Reference

A free database of millions of users 'self-identified political leanings and interests/affiliations is pretty amazing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radiohead Republicans] Reference

ROLLINS: In 2004, 39 percent of the voters were self-identified Republicans, 39 percent were self-identified Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2008] Reference

When you look at the real margin of -- of victory yesterday, four years ago, 39 percent self-identified them as Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2008] Reference

BLANKLEY: But do keep in mind that self-identified, 40 percent of the public are conservatives and 20 percent are liberals.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009] Reference

HOLMES: What do you say to that 43 percent of self-identified conservatives in Maryland who pulled the lever for John McCain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2008] Reference

Specifically, there are 3.3 million self-identified Republicans on the user-generated video site versus 3.1 million Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [YouTube: Now for Republicans!] Reference

The same poll, though, shows Romney received more of the self-identified "conservative" vote, 38 percent to McCain's 31 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bogus Claims in Boca] Reference

They then apply these categories to self-identified Democrats, Republicans, and Independents and supporters of specific candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Paul's Haul, Redux] Reference

But if you look at the voters in this state, more than half are self-identified as independent voters. 37 percent say they're Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2010] Reference

In the Pew Poll, a third of Democrats, a third of self-identified Democrats, said that they've heard enough or too much about Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008] Reference

Dole had only 54 percent support among self-identified conservatives, and was running even with Clinton among white males and white Southerners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Who's Interesting] Reference