Posted on 05/20/2004 2:05:53 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
George W. Bush
Conservative 57% Moderate 28% Liberal 7% Not Sure 8% RasmussenReports.com
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Conservative 9% Moderate 40% Liberal 45% Not Sure 6% RasmussenReports.com
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May 20, 2004--Fifty-seven percent (57%) of American voters believe that, in political terms, George W. Bush is conservative. Another 28% see the President as moderate. At the same time, the Rasmussen Reports survey found that 45% see John F. Kerry as liberal. Forty percent (40%) see the Senator as a moderate.
While President Bush is better known to voters, perceptions of him have shifted more in the past three months than perceptions of Senator Kerry.
Three months ago, just 50% of voters saw Bush as conservative. That's seven points below today's level.
Three months ago, 41% of voters defined Kerry as liberal. That's four points below today's level.
Views of the President are fairly constant across partisan lines. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Republicans see Bush as conservative along with 58% of Democrats and 55% of unaffiliated voters.
However, the partisan views of Kerry are quite different. Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans believe Kerry is politically liberal. This view is shared by 26% of Democrats and 37% of unaffiliated voters.
Only one-fifth of liberal voters see Kerry as one of them. However, most conservatives believe the President is conservative. Demographic breakdowns are available for RR Premium Members.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports May 18-19, 2004. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
John F. Kerry Conservative 9%
My first thought was, how far left would you have to be to think Kerry was Conservative??? But then I remembered a focus group I participated in where one of the other pannelists said "I think it's very conservative, like NPR, or the New York Times, kind of like that."
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
Im trying for another "Classic", but nothing comes to mind yet...
This just in...55% of those polled are stupid.
Yeah, it just takes a quick visit to DU to see just how distorted some viewpoints are. Those idiots are convinced CNN is GOP-TV. I mean Stalin could see the left-wing bias in CNN/NYT/MSNBC.
Besides Kerry is a Billionaire and a war criminal. That must mean he can't be a Democrat. < /sarcasm >
Yes, I've known my share of those folk. Anyone who thinks elections mean anything at all or who thinks that any politician has any agenda except to destroy anyone they can if there is personal profit in it, is considered "conservative" to a lot more people than I care to think about. The NYT, Dan Rather etc. are all conservatives to people who think that drawing a salary is the equivalent of slavery and that institutions have no purpose to their existence except to be overthrown.
That's a pretty good result for the Bush team. Kerry is a big unknown to most of the country at this point. The Bush strategy will be to paint him as a Massachussetts liberal just like his Dad's campaign did to Dukakis. Look for Kerry's "liberal" number to rise and rise as we approach November.
The fact that 57% of the people are wrong and couldn't tell a conservative from a sweet potato should surprise no one.
"Ted rall is an admitted Anarchist-Socialist."
So is Ralph Nader...
Correction: expose him as a ...
By late summer, Kerry's liberal rating should be over 50%.
So which is more pathetic? That a full 57% of sheeple think Bush is Conservative or that only 45% think Kerry is liberal?
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100% of those polled believed their IQ to be above the mean.
63% of all statistics are made up.
I can't find it right now, but there was an analysis of Kerry's senate votes, and he ended up more aligned with the liberal position than Jesse Helms ended up aligned with the conservative position. Something like 2 votes total, in an entire session, that went against the liberals. Not even Kennedy nor Hillary! could match that. Backhoe, do you have the link for this?
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