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.
Think about it..... Romney considers himself to be a conservative.
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Politically a plurality are democrat, because it profits them. Its simple.
“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”
When you throw moderates into the mix, the country breaks out as 40% conservative, 35% moderate, and 21% liberal. So, who do moderates vote for. One of the reasons that they don’t call themselves conservatives is because of the media assigned stigma against conservatives. Conservatives are extremists, racists, gun-toting morons. Moderates don’t want to be associated with that, so they vote Democrat. It’s amazing what a good propaganda program can do for a losing political philosophy. It gets even worse when the so called conservative leadership throws their conservative constituents under the bus.
Once agAin Gallup seems to confuse Conservative with Republican. If their surmise we’re true, not only would there be no Obama presidency, there’d be no RINOs.
I don’t believe this for a second. I *wish* it were true, but you can wish in one hand and spit in the other, and see which one gets filled first.