And the media wants us to think conservatism is isolated.
Good piece to expose and discount that notion.
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“.......only three states - Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts - have more respondents calling themselves liberal than conservative. In two of those three states, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the liberal advantage is tiny.
This is consistent with all past Gallup Poll surveys on this topic. The number of states in which conservatives outnumber liberals has been as low as 47 states and as high as 50 states. This ought to be a very big story, but Gallup, like nearly every other polling organization, tilts left ideologically. As I have noted in prior articles on this subject, the titles Gallup gives to its stories tell it all.
Here are the titles Gallup gave to all of its surveys reporting the ideological composition of each of the fifty states. I have included, after the title, the number of states in that particular Gallup survey that reported more conservatives than liberals:
“Political ideology: ‘Conservative’ Label Prevails in the South” (50 conservative states)
“Wyoming, Mississippi, Utah Rank as Most Conservative States” (49 conservative states)
“Mississippi Ranks as Most Conservative State” (50 conservative states)
“Alabama, North Dakota, Wyoming Most Conservative States” (48 conservative states)
“Mississippi Most Conservative State, D.C. Most Liberal” (49 conservative states)
“Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana Most Conservative States” (47 conservative states)
“Red States Outnumber Blue States for the First Time in Gallup Tracking” (47 conservative states)
The last item is the title of the most recent Gallup article, the one published on February 3, 2016.
Why would Gallup give such bland titles to its surveys - titles that say nothing of the remarkable fact of conservative domination? Except for the latest reported survey, which deals with “blue” and “red” states rather than ideology, readers who skim the title of these articles will see nothing unusual at all. Who would be shocked to learn that North Dakota, Mississippi, Wyoming, Utah, Louisiana, and Alabama are conservative states?
If the survey results are true, as Gallup must believe, and every single Gallup Poll on the subject shows the same remarkable demographic fact of overwhelming conservative predominance among the fifty states, then this ought to be very big news - revolutionary news, really.
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Okay, but what "conservative" means in New York State or New Jersey or Oregon isn't what it means in the most conservative states.
Self-described conservatives "outnumber" self-described liberals in those states, but liberals plus a large share of self-described "moderates" are able to defeat conservatives.
And even those self-designated conservatives aren't all dying to put Ted Cruz in the White House.