Posted on 10/08/2010 3:27:28 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Gallup's recent modeling of the vote for Congress finds 54% of likely voters identifying themselves as politically conservative, while moderates are in conspicuously short supply compared with recent midterms. Also, Republicans make up a larger share of the electorate in Gallup's initial 2010 likely voter pool -- greater than their 1994 share -- than do Democrats, and the gap is even more pronounced once the leanings of independents are taken into account.
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Focus on the prize is a motivator, not an arbinger of complanceny. Don’t get the two confused here. What we are seeing is a groundswell of a continuing escalation of good news for our beleifs and not so much as an “us vs. them” scenario.
So yes, revell in the good news to build even more momentum for our beleifs because when the stark reality hits the average Joe on the street of just how completely they were hoodwinked, we will need to be there with truth and acceptance if they are willing to recognize where it all went wrong.
But only do so with the basis of a “Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me attitude. Or as Ronaldo Maximus coined the phrase “Trust but verify”.
If we can unite this country again, it will be the only way we find our way out of the mess we are now in. We need the whole team pullng together.
I agree. I take these moderate polls with a grain of salt. What’s the definition of moderate?
There isn’t one and it flexes all the time. I believe that without government schooling you’d see conservatism (Classical Liberalism) with a solid majority.
Progressivism or liberalism would extinguish itself.
The media is going to experience its own bubble bursting soon and it will be from the media pressure from offshore who will make the first needle prick in their bubble.
The foreign media is now searching out the Tea Party movements in this country to learn what we are all about as evidenced by this blog posting from the First Coast Tea Party site:
Yesterday I was interviewed by a television crew from Japan. How the heck did that happen? Some days I wonder what happened to life as I knew it since September 2008. The day we bailed out banks turned many Americans’ lives inside out. We began our search to find out what was going on. What we found, was surprising and sad. Our leaders had made a mess of our country and Liberty was in peril.
The television crew was searching for an understanding of the Tea Party Movement. All they knew is what they had heard in the liberal media. I cannot begin to tell you how much fun it was to enlighten them on the real people of the tea party. They wanted to know why we did not want to accept people in America anymore from different lands and heritages!! We set that straight and let them know that all are welcome. We love the melting pot of America. We love those peope who come here in search of liberty and entrepreneurship. We love those who come and bring their traditions with them all the while respecting ours and accepting ours. We love those who do not want to change or remake America to what they left behind and instead want to pull into the foundation of liberty in America.
It was so much fun watching them “get it” because they would not want someone from America going to Japan and telling them – “Change your traditions and do what we do in America.”
They got it when we spoke about being financially broke and dependent on others to bail us out. Those others are not our friends – they are our debtors. Japan understands debt and they understand living under that burden is tough to bear.
They got it when we spoke of American traditions and how our founding fathers set in place this wonderful gift called Liberty. The Japanese are very traditional people and they protect and defend their traditions just as we are doing. They have much pride in their heritage too.
The interview ended and they did not want to leave our tea party office. They took pictures of Stand up for Freedom t-shirts, Don’t Raise my Taxes t-shirts, Constitutional scrolls, tea party hats and the famous yellow Don’t Tread on me Flag.
They will be back before the November elections and they want to return. I told them to visit again ’cause we ain’t going away!
I think the debate would be between Religious Right conservatism and Libertarian (Ron Paul/Walter Williams/Neil Boortz) conservatism.
Well, Reid blames the "selfish, spoiled" voter for his troubles. I guess the feces has rolled....
Harry Reid: Voters are blaming me because they’re selfish little children or something
“We now know the “Big Tent” initiative in the Republican Party was nothing more than a Progressives smoke and mirrors distraction to control the party and the future of our nation with their willing Democrat Progressives.”
Enough of us have *finally* caught on, haven’t we?
While we are all excited and pleased at the numbers we are seeing, be aware of the flip side of this news.
The Dems haven’t forgotten 1994. The better our chances get to more likely they will resort to extremes we’ve never seen to disrupt and corrupt this election.
I wouldn’t suggest probabilities, but I think pretty much anything is on the table for “October Surprise” gambits. And I guarantee gross polling illegalities beyond anything seen over seen this this country.
Us meaning conservatives, correct in that I said “We now know , ,”
This election will start to enlighten those who don’t.
Seeing that the national nightly news is now considering changing their format to a roundtable “Sunday Talks” format opens all sorts of possibilities for the local news stations to gravitate away from the nightly notifications of the Tomato festival and kids face paintings into something a bit more meaningful as a public service.
From watching Beck for the last year and seeing his evolution to an educational format from a talk format is something I have thought and true public service organization could do on the local level. Instead of soundbite news, advertise that at least half the daily segment will be on a particular issue of the day.
That’s a healthy debate. We need Christian morality on a framework of liberty. The greatest contention may come from the Libertarian support for homosexual marriage, although I think the drug war will be first on the agenda.
“... telephone polls are going to skew conservative ...”
Actually, conservatives might tend to screen more via answering machines and voicemail, if I’m not mistaken.
That poll is interesting. Thanks for posting it. It shows that when the Republican party goes liberal (referred to as “moderate”) the GOP is a minority party. If you have two liberal parties, conservatives - the majority - have no home. Therefore conservatives are a HUGE, wasted power base shunned by both parties.
But the truth is, Rinos do not mind the GOP being a permanent minority socialist party working with their friends across the aisle. That is why conservatives have to go in like gonzilla on a Rino hunt every time the Rinos take over the GOP. The Rinos hate us as much as the liberal Democrats hate us.
You didn't just piss in the punchbowl: you laid a giant turd in it.
What we NEED is to take over the press. I can't tell you the number of people at work who quote NPR or The New York Times as though those sources are Gospel TruthTM; and then, tell me how independent-thinking and open-minded they are.
Cheers!
Do not trust them.
I do trust the woman who wrote this as I know her very well.
The reason: RINO's at the top of the GOP heap, by and large, are stooges for globalism and the money it brings.
/bingo
That’s quite a jump from 2006 to 2010. At least SOME of the electorate has awakened to a degree.
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