Posted on 09/08/2014 3:29:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Within a few days, the Gallup Poll and the Battleground Poll provided more polling data that demonstrates just how much conservatives outnumber liberals in America. The Gallup Poll, in its August 26 “State by State: Key Metrics for 2014,” provided data that reveals that in all but three states – Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts – conservatives outnumber liberals.
This is consistent with all prior Gallup Poll results for many years. In a few of these polls, conservatives have outnumbered liberals in every state of the nation, and in a few of these polls, liberals outnumber conservatives in one or two of a handful of states. Nationally, this polling data shows that 36% of Americans call themselves conservative and 36% call themselves moderates, while 23% call themselves liberal.
Gallup is not a conservative-leaning organization. It is, in fact, very much at the center of the establishment that looks down at conservatives as yahoos and dimwits. Gallup does, however, care about its reputation as a polling organization. It sells data to businesses and related sorts of consumers. Lying about its polling methods or its data would be corporate suicide. Downplaying the significance of certain poll results, however, would be fine. That is precisely what Gallup has done.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Then why on Earth do we have Obama? Ok 2008 due to guilt, but 2012????? Seriously, I would love to believe this, but......I just don’t know. I would think the country is more 30 percent liberal, 30 percent conservatives and 40 percent independent.
Which is why we won the last two presidential elections and the gay marriage fight ... oh, wait...
NOTE: Gallup’s polling results are supported by the Battleground Polling results as well.
The Battleground Poll, just announced in early September, shows exactly the same sort of pattern in ideological division of America. The August 2014 Battleground Poll shows that 58% of Americans call themselves “very conservative” or “somewhat conservative” and that 37% of Americans call themselves “very liberal” or “somewhat liberal.” Every single Battleground Poll – almost twenty over the last dozen years – shows almost exactly the same breakdown of America.
Ideological self-identification is the single most stable poll result in all the Battleground Polls. In fact, no major polling organization in America in the last fifty years has ever produced a poll that shows more liberals than conservatives in America, and the number of “self-identified” conservatives has actually drifted upward over the last several decade.
So, with this in mind, can anybody explain how we got Obama in 2008 AND 2012?
I think most of these conservatives want a candidate they can vote for, not someone who they will vote for simply to prevent a disaster like Obama.
Maybe 58-37 in that poll, but looking around at bumper stickers, I’d say Conservatives have an uphill run ahead of them, both at the polls and with the GOP-e afterwards.
I think most of these conservatives want a candidate they can vote for, not someone who they will vote for simply to prevent a disaster like Obama.
Think about it..... Romney considers himself to be a conservative.
Ask the members of this board who thought it better to stay home holding their breath and stomping their feet, whining about not voting for “the lesser of two evils”.
Here’s a very simple question to ask yourself -— Would you vote for someone like Mitt Romney or John McCain in order to prevent an Obama presidency?
If the answer is ‘no’, we know the reason why we got Obama.
True or not, the only poll that counts is the one we hold every other November.
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100 percent true!
RE: Think about it..... Romney considers himself to be a conservative.
Here’s another question to ponder... are those who were polled able to articulate what it means to be conservative? Or are they responding to the poll simply because “conservative” sounds better than “liberal”?
The article says: in all but three states – Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts – conservatives outnumber liberals.
As a New Yorker, I find it hard to believe that my state missed the “liberal” cut.
"If the answer is ‘no’ yes, we know the reason why we got Obama."
In that case, MOST Conservatives DO NOT participate in the primaries.
Well, we still know the reason why we got Obama.
Politically a plurality are democrat, because it profits them. Its simple.
The article doesn't appear to confirm the numbers given in the headline. And in fact, those numbers don't appear on the website.
You're closer to what the body of the article says:
Nationally, this polling data shows that 36% of Americans call themselves conservative and 36% call themselves moderates, while 23% call themselves liberal.
So why Obama?
1) Those moderates broke in favor of the Democrats.
2) About 20% of Democrats call themselves conservative. Once upon a time many of them were more conservative than many Republicans and voted for the GOP in presidential elections. That's a lot less true now. Assuming today's conservative Democrats still don't like liberals, they like Republicans a lot less (and some may not be willing to admit that their Democrat candidates actually are liberals). So there are people out there who call themselves conservative, but habitually vote Democrat. By contrast, only about 5% of Republicans call themselves liberals.
Here is why:
Pollster: Do you consider yourself liberal or conservative?
Lifetime Democrat: Conservative of course.
It is a meaningless poll with regard to this particular element.
“Here’s another question to ponder... are those who were polled able to articulate what it means to be conservative? Or are they responding to the poll simply because “conservative” sounds better than “liberal”?”
That’s exactly it.
Many people say they’re conservative because they support lower taxes and a strong national defense.
They also say they support abortion rights, social justice, and gay marriage.
I don’t really stay current on stats but I’d wager a large majority of people identify themselves as Christians as well. That doesn’t mean they do anything except call themselves Christians.
“moderates” are just mugwumps
mugwumps are people who want to sit with their mugs on one side of the fence/an issue and their wumps on the other
they go about complaining about everyone else being “too partisan” when what they do is create an environment of greater “partisanship” by preventing solid majorities on one set of principles or another, of which the “moderates” have none, beyond “can’t we all just get along”
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