[NewLand]

But then again, it's not all that surprising that freeper opinion would mirror broader GOP opinion.

Well, there's a suprise! Free Republic opinion reflects mainstream conservative opinion nationwide.

No kidding.

What do you expect from the #1 conservative website on the planet?

You just cannot handle being an insignificant special interest group. You should be happy that you have a 'big tent' to operate in within the Republican Party.

We pro-science conservatives have our work cut out to make our party the voice of reason once again.

Now that's a statement that smacks of narrow minded liberal tactics.

I'm not suggesting you should leave, but it would be interesting to see the results of the exact same poll on a liberal website.

[freedumb2003]

I'm not suggesting you should leave, but it would be interesting to see the results of the exact same poll on a liberal website.

Probably almost exactly inverted. Hard to say what is sadder.

[ml1954]

Yeah, we don't need the votes of that 30% of self described conservative people. They can't be 'real' conservatives. Those atheists will get what's coming to them when they die. Real conservatives know creationism trumps science. Let's just dump them. And then after we win the election we can.....

[curiosity]

Well, there's a suprise! Free Republic opinion reflects mainstream conservative opinion nationwide.

No, the surprise is that the poll seems to be reasonably accurate. Web polls are often notoriously easy to cheat.

You just cannot handle being an insignificant special interest group.

31% is hardly insignificant.

You should be happy that you have a 'big tent' to operate in within the Republican Party.

Yes. I'm very happy about that.