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.
I agree.
Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth by our resident GOP-e trolls, that's exactly the case. Give us a real conservative to vote FOR, and watch what happens at the polls.