Posted on 10/23/2014 7:38:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every national poll by every recognized polling organization shows that conservatives dramatically outnumber liberals in America. For a covertly leftist establishment media, complete with organs of subtle propaganda and selective misinformation, the best strategy for handling the uncomfortable fact of a conservative majority in America is to hide or at least contort it.
Treating conservatives like a despised minority is the very heart of leftist demonology. The left purports to represent America and claims vast powers because it is the champion of ordinary people. Terms like “radical right wing” and “extreme conservative” are the essence of leftist rhetoric. It is inconceivable that any establishment organization would deliberately inflate the perceived strength of conservatism in America. If conservatives are the majority in America, then the establishment will hide that fact or cover it up with as much meaningless glop as possible.
Witness the Politico poll just released in mid-October. Skim down to Question 31, asking respondents to identify themselves ideologically: “Liberal” 17%, “Moderate” 44%, “Conservative” 38%, and “Declined to Answer” 1%. If that is true, then the left is a small minority in America, but conservatives are not a majority. But Question 32 pushes the ideological envelope, asking moderates which way they “lean” – "Liberal" 25%, “Moderate” 45%, “Conservative” 28%, and “Declined to Answer” 2%.
Exclude those who declined to answer and put those “Moderate” respondents who affirmatively chose to lean “Conservative,” rather than “Liberal” or “Moderate” or “Declined to Answer,” as “Conservative,” and the resilient conservative majority emerges (again) at 51% of all respondents. Only 28% of respondents are “Liberal.” The remaining “Moderate” moderates – 45% of “Moderates” said that they lean “Moderate” – are 20% of the population.
This is a consistent pattern of how establishment polling organizations treat the conservative majority in America.
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But still too intimidated to boldly proclaim what is right and wrong.
The question really is this — How many of those who identify as “Conservatives” really are who they say they are?
How do they feel if government programs were CUT for instance?
Yet the Liberals always win. They control the media and academia. If you control those two, you control the country.
The question really is this — How many of those who identify as “Conservatives” really are who they say they are?
How do they feel if government programs were CUT for instance?
It doesn’t matter. They have Urban Vote Factories.
RE: Yet the Liberals always win. They control the media and academia. If you control those two, you control the country.
It’s good to call yourself a Conservative ( in theory ), but when push comes to shove, many of those “conservatives” can be quite liberal when their favorite government program is cut or taken away.
How for instance to explain the DANGER that Sam Brownback is facing in Kansas? He will probably one of the few REPUBLICANS who will lose his seat in an election year that is trending Republican nationwide. And remember — THIS IS KANSAS, A RED STATE !!
What did he do? Well he did everything fiscally a conservative is supposed to do, yet, when the results are in, the folks at Kansas don’t like it.
I don’t buy this finding. Liberals by nature are liars, and as such tend to falsely ID themselves as “conservative” or “moderate.”
Yes they are conservative. They want to conserve Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, federal (rather than state) highway spending, the National Guard (over state militias), marriage (including gay “marriage”), cheap illegal alien labor, the Dept. of Education, etc.
IIRC, polls like this actually ask value questions,
not “do you identify as conservative”.
Yep. If we could actually turn those numbers into votes, the liberals would never win another national election and fewer statewide elections.
Blacks poll alot more conservatively than they vote.
They may think that they are social (at least) conservatives, but other issues (say, voting for someone b/c of the color of his skin, or the crease in his trousers, or promises of free stuff) seems to trump this. At least from what Gallup shows. If people voted for what they claim to believe, there would effectively be no Democrat party.
That's why average temperatures are not rising and the Great Lakes are colder every year.
There are more conservatives than liberals.
That's why democrats keep winning elections.
I wonder if this poll takes into account the exemption the Democrats give themselves to the one man one vote rule.
People who tell pollsters they are Conservative, but still pull the lever for Democrats (particularly over economic issues)....THAT is the problem.
Most of my neighbors are culturally conservative Catholics who keep pulling the lever for Dems cause “they support the WORKIN’ MAN!”
Call it a pushover poll.
Thats the problem. They consider Romney/Mitch/Jonbon as conservative so the word really has little meaning today. It had been redefined like ‘gay’ and usurped to push an agenda.
No resemblance to it’s original definition.
Easy to hate liberal elites and their shills... hello New York Times...
Yep. Most people have not the remotest idea how economics work. A fair percentage don't have much of a clue when it comes to how their own government works. So long as the government is in charge of education, this will continue to be the case, and people will vote emotionally rather than rationally.
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