The Solid Conservative Majority: Two polls in Jan. 2014 confirm that America is solidly conservative

American Thinker ^ | 02/01/2014 | Bruce Walker

[SeekAndFind]

Two polls in January 2014 confirm what I have written about for quite a while: America -- and this means not just Flyover Country, but nearly all of America -- is solidly conservative.

The Battleground Poll shows that a very solid majority of Americans describe themselves as conservative. This poll has been remarkably accurate in predicting the outcome of elections. The internal data of the Battleground Poll, unlike many other polls, is publicly reported.

Since 2002, there have been more than twenty Battleground Poll surveys reported by George Washington University, and the results of these polls show big swings in the support for political parties, national priorities, and policy positions. Yet in every single case, respondents to the Battleground Poll overwhelmingly describe themselves as "conservative."

Historically, polls have seldom asked direct questions about ideology, but an interesting exception in past decades has been the American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, published by Harvard University Press. The 1980 edition of this publication is little more than hundreds of pages of dry data, presented without editorial opinion. Harvard is not hotbed of conservatism. If there were any bias, surely it would be to make conservatism look like a despised minority within American society.

The data of Table 2.22 on page 95 of the sourcebook presents the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "liberal" and "conservative" for the four years reported: 1972 (27% conservative and 19% liberal), 1974 (26% conservative and 21% liberal), 1976 (25% conservative and 15% liberal), and 1978 (28% conservative and 20% liberal). The data of Table 2.23 on the same page reports survey results from even-numbered years since 1964, and this data, although calibrated obscurely, shows the same preponderance of conservatives over liberals for each even numbered year from 1964 to 1978.

[SgtHooper]

They asked the wrong question. The question is, how many are Conservative Democrat and Conservative Republican.

I know people who say they are conservative democrats!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is complete BS. Americans are not solidly conservative. If they were, we would not have abortion or trillion dollar deficits. If any politician talks about cutting the budget by any real number — not some nonsense like $50 billion but $500 billion or so, Americans willingly believe the Dems BS that the world will come to an end.

[Fiji Hill]

The other day, conservative commentator Michael Medved said that only 31 percent of Americans are conservative, and that if the Republicans hope to take the White House, they need to nominate someone who will win over the Moderates.

[ScottinVA]

A solid majority of conservatives who elect people like Barack Obama. Right.

[bert]

Yes......

homogenity is not a conservative group trait.

(homogenity for those in Rio Linde, is not a term having any thing to do with queers))

[NorthMountain]

So ... how is it that by the first Monday of Nov, 2008 and again by the first Monday of Nov, 2012 we were assured of having a leftist President? Conservatives lost both of those elections before they were even held.

[truth_seeker]

And many self-identified “conservatives” in this and other polls, votes democrat.

[Luke21]

Exactly. The country is brainwashed, anesthetized, and easily led by the communist swine media.

[Digger]

Anytime there is only an electronic “paper” trail the potential for fraud is enormous. One of my skillsets is fraud investigation but it doesn’t take an investigator to know that the electronic voting systems and that data collection process could be hacked. All you have to do to pull it off is put the benefactor’s buddies in charge of the investigations (i.e FEC, Holder, DOJ, etc...)

Yea, the whole voting process is one big joke. Next is if a true conservative got elected one day into it the "rulers" of this banana republic would show this person the JFK film. Just be prepared for the same ole because that's what it's going to be.

[bicyclerepair]

Personally I don’t get how a self-professed Christian can vote for the abortion party.

Like Beckel on the five, he’s against killing murderers, but fine with killing unborn babies.

God I’m so confused.

[tomkat]

 If this poll is true, then   we have a MASSIVE election fraud problem in this banana republic.

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