Posted on 02/01/2014 6:44:19 AM PST by 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.
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Define “conservative.”
If this poll is true, then we have a MASSIVE election fraud problem in this banana republic.
Gay couples can now call themselves "married" too, but that doesn't make it so.
You could’ve fooled me on Election Day, 2012!
Electoral fraud is one explanation; a lukewarm candidate (Mitt) is another. I’d say we had both.
The free stuff crowd might say they are conservative, but in the end they will vote for whoever promises more free stuff.
Solid enough to thwart election fraud in November?
The American Thinker link went to National review.
Wrong links.
Top says American Thinker, but goes to NRO “The Limits of Capitalism”.
Bottom says National Review Online, but goes to “The Limits of Capitalism”
Lukewarm is being generous. Mitt was barely breathing.
And the Republican hierarchy will continue to foist more of the same candidates upon us.
How people label themselves is meaningless. What are their positions on issues.
I think that many people who claim they are conservative accept the premise of a large, central planning big government, but one that will govern in a “smarter conservative” way.
When is the last time you heard anyone talk of abolishing some Cabinet departments, starting with Education?
He showed a flash of fire in the first debate, then seemed to feel ashamed of it afterwards. Odd, because it took a lot of money and organization to win the primaries.
BS
This country due to immigration and brainwashed gen Y
Has never ever ever been as liberal as now
It is very very very very discouraging to those of us old enough to remember when culturally we were quite different
Anyone can’t see the obvious as evidenced election night 2012 is whistling past the graveyard
Not really. The voter turn out in the 2012 election was down to about 52% of the voting age population, from 58% in 2008 and close to that in 2004. The media is reluctant to bring that fact out, namely that the public was not inspired by either man. Obviously, with Romney, conservatives had little reason to turn out , he was just a “me too, but a little less “ version of Obama, not willing to engage on social issues, etc. On the other hand, the left is never going to have as ideal a candidate as Obama again, especially with three coats of Teflon for anything negative. If the TEA party side can get an authentic conservative on the Republican line in 2016, there’s going to be a turn out that will roll the Democrats over.
If these polls truly and accurately represent American political leanings, then why is the “Community Organizer” President?
Ah, I tend to doubt it.
Then VOTE like it.
Define “conservative.”
If this poll is true, then we have a MASSIVE election fraud problem in this banana republic.
It will take an insider to come clean to expose it. That and a small army to keep him from getting killed by The One.
1.) Voter fraud.
2.) Low info types who aren't aware that Obama is a Marxist.
3.) People who think themselves conservative but who are really only conservative on economic issues.
I think if an insider even contemplated coming forward with the fraud problem he/she would disappear within hours.
Most blacks and Hispanic call themselves “conservatives.”
Case closed.
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