The country is tilting Republican

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[slowhand520]

Hopefully this trend will last

By E&P Staff

Published: December 14, 2004 5:00 PM ET

NEW YORK Even as a new Gallup poll shows that the public values “values” less than November exit polls suggested, another survey from the same outfit released today showed a historic surge in Republican party affiliation.

In Gallup's latest poll this month, those identifying themselves as Republicans jumped to 37% of the public, with Democrats now clearly trailing with 32%.

Democrats have long held more party members than Republicans. During the Clinton years, the bulge was about 5% to 6%. As recently as late-October of this year the Democratic edge was 37% to 34%.

Gallup noted today: “Post-election shifts in partisanship after presidential elections or midterm congressional elections are not routine, but are also not uncommon.”

Another Gallup poll also released today showed that, contrary to many press reports, “values” ranked well behind the war in Iraq, terrorism and the economy as a prime concern of Americans.

If this was posted already sorry.

[Zhangliqun]

"During the Clinton years, the bulge was . . .

. . . in Clinton's pants."

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Front or back?

[k2blader]

These days I associate "Republican" with "(maybe) less socialist" rather than "conservative". I'm not sure how the situation will improve...

[Beemnseven]

Big deal. When will people realize that political parties serve no other purpose other than getting people elected and that they do not stand for any particular philosophy?

What we should be looking for is news that more people recognize themselves to be conservatives or libertarians. 70% of the American people believe that government is responsible for providing prescription drugs. Many more have no interest in taking 14% of their paychecks and investing it in a retirement plan privately. Until this mentality changes amongst the general public, it doesn't really matter that more people identify themselves with an "R" after their name.

[newgeezer]

The country is tilting Republican

Republican is tilting socialist. Therefore, the country continues on its march toward socialism, if only a bit slower than it does when tilting Democrap.

[Jeff Blogworthy]

Would that it were true. It seems to me that the country has been tilting more and more towards Federalism and away from individual autonomy and community rule since its inception. The Judiciary is practically running the country by fiat and the Constitution has been dumbed down to irrelevancy. I am not confident we are winning at all.

Meanwhile, half of today's Republicans don't believe in the concept of limited government.

[Digger]

The country is republican including both house of Congress & a president & NO conservative Supreme Court when GW leaves. This will tell ya have you have been snookered by these pols who owe their allegiances to the elites.

[slowhand520]

I think we are just sick of progressive values. The homosexual and feminist agenda has gotten way out of hand. The feminization of man has become their number one agenda. We went from John Wayne, Magnum PI tv types to "Ross" from friends, Chandler and Will (will and Grace). If we question anything we are labeled homophobes. Luckily the counrty has spoken. Hence the tilt to the right

[k2blader]

Yes. Do you think this can ever be reversed? And if so, how?

[Zhangliqun]

The country is tilting Republican
Ya think? :-p

Actually, I don't think this trend is necessarily guaranteed, long term.

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I think that it may very likely be all but guaranteed, probably for the next 15-20 years anyway. My evidence? Laura Ingraham had a guy on last week who looked into it and has found that conservatives are having more babies than lefties.

Ties in well with a piece someone posted here a few months ago by a Toronto columnist about feminists complaining about the lack of feminist thinking among young women today. The columnist said, it's simple: your very philosophy of abortion and anti-marriage, anti-nuclear family prevents you from leaving much of a legacy because...

...you don't have any children to carry the baton after you...

[fr_freak]

Like a Pendulum, we swing from one side to the other. We spent too much time on the left during the late 60's and 70's, then went Right during Reagan's reign, then to left again, and now right.

I don't think we ever really went rightward during Reagan's time. We simply slowed the rate at which we were moving leftward.

[Dane]

These days I associate "Republican" with "(maybe) less socialist" rather than "conservative". I'm not sure how the situation will improve..

And hillary pandering and flashing her breasts at you all(the always "independent" and trust no one when publicly speaking) means nothing?

JMO, the majority of you all like to cause trouble but are smart enough to know where the political core lies in the voting booth.

It's just sometime some of us who don't like to play games, speak up and say stop playing games.

[Tennessean4Bush]

LOL!

[Recovering_Democrat]

GOOD.

[twntaipan]

After 30 plus years of Roe v Wade we have the evidence: demoncRATs have aborted themselves in to a shrinking minority party.

As Morpheus says in The Matrix: "Fate, it would seem, is not without a sense of irony."

[k2blader]

The "moderates" are the ones playing games with our nation and her people.

When the Republicans take a noticeable stand for things that will reduce socialism, I'll be a little more optimistic.

[paudio]

Another Gallup poll also released today showed that, contrary to many press reports, “values” ranked well behind the war in Iraq, terrorism and the economy as a prime concern of Americans.

In any case, I hope Democrats embrace this 'value' issue. Whether voters care or not, at least we have opposition who agree in basic tenet of the society. And by doing that, hopefully, the atheists, ultra-leftists, etc., will get upset with the Democratic party so they switch to Green, etc.

[GunnyHartman]

The only way to fix this dilemma is to appoint Howard Dean as the head of the DNC.

[Southack]

"increasingly tenuous connection to conservative ideals"

You must be new to politics, then.

In the 1920's, Republican governor Lynn Frazier (later, Senator Frazier) was scandalized because his platform of pure Socialism (e.g. state owned and run bank, grain mill, etc.), once enacted in North Dakota, led to such rampant corruption that he became the first governor to ever be recalled.

Likewise, in the 1960's and 1970's, Republican President Nixon gave us the EPA, Affirmative Action, opened up Communist China, and pulled out of the Vietnam War.

Frankly, Republicans have grown increasingly *more* conservative and less Socialistic over time; not the other way around. Privatizing Social Security would have had Republican elites in full blown snit-fits in the 1970's, for instance, yet today, Republicans embrace such privatization efforts.

Republicans no longer run on policy platforms of pure, unadulterated Socialism. This is a vast improvement from the 1920's and 1930's.

We've come a long way baby.

[newgeezer]

Yes. Do you think this can ever be reversed? And if so, how?

I am reminded of the proverbial frog in the kettle, the one who doesn't notice he's being boiled for dinner because the flame under the kettle is low.

With that in mind, I don't get overly-dismayed at the thought of a Hillary! in the White House. Because, as excruciatingly awful as that sounds, it might be just what it takes to wake up the sheeple and bring about the revival/revolution that we so sorely need in this nation.

It's becoming very clear that the frog will never have the sense to jump out of the kettle if he never notices the rising temperature.

[OB1kNOb]

"The country is tilting Republican...."

I beg to differ. It's simply "right"-ing itself after listing hard to the port side when it took a sharp turn to the left in the 90's with Prez Bubba.............