Posted on 06/28/2007 7:01:09 AM PDT by Mike Bates
A large nationwide poll of Republican voters shows that an increasing number consider themselves conservative, that about half favor universal healthcare and allowing gays in the military, and that the vast majority say spreading democracy shouldn’t be the United States’ top foreign policy goal.
The poll, conducted by GOP consultant Tony Fabrizio 10 years after he conducted a similar study, also casts some doubts on the conventional wisdom about moral-issues voters, thought to be the key constituency for President Bush in 2004. It showed that the group hasn’t grown significantly in recent years and is surprisingly willing to vote for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani despite his differences with it on social and moral issues.
The survey of 2,000 self-described Republican voters, titled “The Elephant Looks in the Mirror 10 Years Later,” showed that 71 percent consider themselves conservative, a 16 percent increase over the 1997 numbers.
Fifty-one percent of the GOPers said universal healthcare coverage should be a right of every American, and 49 percent favored allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.
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I like Tony, but his polls can sometimes generate some very unusual results.
I’d like to see who and where he polled.
If we had universal health care at the time of his injury, my baby brother would be dead.
Here we go again. Another well-designed poll. Poll results for sale — just tell us what you want the poll to say. We will take care of the rest.....
Brought to you by the “SOROS FUNDING OF HILLARY FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”....
not
Ed Gillespie is passionately lobbying for government mandated healthcare. Now that he is a “counselor” for President Bush this poll does not surprise me in the least. It is basically one of many “feelers” we will be probed with in the next few months.
Someone is smoking crack.
Maybe in a Log Cabin?
I could be a flaming Communist but tell a pollster I am either Repub or Demo just to screw their poll up. I don’t believe polls from anyone.
Yeah, right.
Gays are such a yawn.
universal health care is great. (sarc)
just go to new zealand. waiting lists 18months long for any operation other than IMMEDIATELY life threatening cases. but its FREE, so it’s all good..
if you say it enough times and loud enough maybe some people will start to believe it....not me.
If they are getting that result, they are not polling Republicans, sorry!
“I’d like to see who and where he polled.”
Either in CT or in San Francisco.
did he poll the same people from the 1997 poll ?
It is also true another poll could say “Many Democrats don’t favor universal healthcare nor gays in military”
This by polling only those people who actually answer their landlines. Don’t know if polling actually works anymore.
Sorry...this poll is bent.
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