Taxcuts for 95% of Americans? End our dependence on Mid East Oil in 10 years? Barack RAN as a centrists, not as a rabid liberal. Now, having lied their way into power, the Left faces the reality of who do they betray? Their lunatic fringe base or the 10s of millions of Centrists they fooled into voting for them?
Check out the Battle Ground poll? Year after year, 60% of Americans describe themselves as “somewhat or very” Conservative. That number did not change in 2006, 2007 or 2008.
Obama has a chance if he moves strongly to the middle as President. In other words, governs on what he ran on, not on what all the fashionable Radicals know he, and they really believe.
If he governs based on all the usual Leftist dogmas, he will destroy his Presidency and his party. Same way Jimmy Carter in virtually the exact same political situation after the 1976 elections.
I think a lot of people were tired of paying for the war and disgusted by mccain for how he handled the bailout. That doesn’t mean that they want a New New Deal. They are more libertarian than liberal.
Check out the Battle Ground poll? Year after year, 60% of Americans describe themselves as “somewhat or very” Conservative. That number did not change in 2006, 2007 or 2008.”
We keep consoling ourselves with that... I suggest you do something - Do your own poll. Call up 100 people. Ask them the conservative/liberal question ... then ask the ‘who’d you vote for question’ for president, congress, etc.
then ask if they think Obama’s a liberal.
Then ask more about their real positions on guns, abortion, marriage, taxes, immigration, Iraq, govt spending, bailouts, S-CHIP, welfare, affirmative action, school choice, etc.
by the time you are done, will those 60% conservative-leaners sound like real conservatives or not?
Are conservatives getting fooled into voting for liberals or just not as conservative afterall. THAT is the question!