That Persistent Conservative Majority: Do Conservatives Still Outnumber Liberals in America?

American Thinker ^ | 04/28/2016 | Bruce Walker

[Vigilanteman]

Do wagon pullers still outnumber wagon riders? Stand in a supermarket line about the time government checks go out and observe how many are paying with EBT cards.

[Resolute Conservative]

10% hard lefties
20% hard conservatives
70% head in the sand idiots (of which 50% of those are welfare losers)

[JPJones]

“Do wagon pullers still outnumber wagon riders?”

43 million gov workers 1

90 million not working

50 million on foodstamps.

Lol it’s not even close!

Talk about “unsustainable”!

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s like James Brown. Whites liked him but could not go see him in concert.

[yetidog]

“Stand in a supermarket line about the time government checks go out and observe how many are paying with EBT cards.”

Observational evidence but nevertheless on target.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Liberals are more concentrated and have a moderate majority in key locations, giving them much more power.

There are a lot of conservatives in New York and New England (~30-40% in each state). If they all moved to California, no democrat would win a national election for the next 3 generations.

[jsanders2001]

Far outnumber. The libs just have the biggest mouths and are the most violent so they get the most airtime.

[Steamburg]

These polls are beginning to seek the meaning of is. The only poll that counts is the one that occurs on election day. The next question is are the people motivated enough to vote and if they are will their votes count? Stalin always said that it is not the voter that counts, it is the one counting the ballots! Pray for America.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It depends whether you are willing to count right-leaning Populists in the Conservative column (which most FReepers aren’t).

The number that define themselves as straight “Conservative” has been declining, due to the obituary column + 25 years of Bush/RINO nonsense. It is likely a minority now.

The old ones die off and are replaced with Feel the Bern Socialists.

[Sam Gamgee]

Again, these polls are inaccurate because they are completely subjective. My experience is citizens generally regard themselves as MORE conservative than in fact they really are. Hilary likely considers herself a moderate. Those that back corn subsidies often consider themselves conservatives. The only meaningful way to judge one’s conservatism/liberalism is to use a 20 point survey that asks opinions on various policy stances. There are many of those such things to be found in cyberspace, and would OBJECTIVELY measure this.

I think deluding ourselves to how “conservative” America is does conservatives no favor.

[Sam Gamgee]

10% leftists, 40% swimming in the liberal muck.

[buckalfa]

Dear old departed George McGovern likely would be viewed as a right winger in today's political environment.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I don’t think we should call welfare recipients and other takers of taxpayer money liberals. They vote that way, but if you ask them what it means, I would say most couldn’t provide an answer.

[Ted Grant]

The GOP has only won the popular vote in presidential elections once since 1988.

Only Ted Cruz can’t read those tea leaves.

[Sam Gamgee]

Fair enough. Although they likely have knee jerk liberal ideas and are not aware their are actually alternative takes on what they believe. For instance they likely believe America lost the Vietnam war on a military basis, when in fact America was pushed into tucking its tale by the leftist media (just one example).

[PghBaldy]

I thought liberals now call themselves “progressives?” They may be asking the wrong question.

[iacovatx]

These types of polls are meaningless-absolutely meaningless. If you ask people if they are conservative or liberal, they will answer very differently than if you ask several questions such as, “do you believe your earnings from your labor are yours?”, “do you believe in the right to have and express your own opinion about governance?”, “do you think humans have the right to protect themselves, their families, and their belongings from harm or theft?”

A college student might answer they are a liberal but answer a series of questions in a very conservative way—this is not surprising because school and family, which is much of what they have known in their short life, is about a conservative set of rules of life. However, the content of school information and classmates’ shallow social faddishness may lead them to want to state they are “liberal” in order to fit in.

[DavidLSpud]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/04/the-remarkable-republican-takeover-of-state-legislatures-in-1-chart/

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Well, we have gay marriage, transgender bathrooms, safe spaces in colleges and government spending and expansion that is not slowing down. And the Dems are still competitive in national elections after all that. So no, the nation is not remotely “conservative.”