Posted on 06/07/2008 6:29:30 PM PDT by FocusNexus
The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles.
In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans.
The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center.
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Republicans may be 27 percent.
Not all republicans are conservatives and not all conservatives are republicans.
McCain does have a -0- rating from NARAL for example and a C+ from the NRAILA, he is a budget hawk, and he is a military hawk.
If we look at his failings, and there is a litany, from Feingold to Shamnesty, for me those are tough issues to support the man on, so it’s like a good dinner consumed with a gutter cheap wine, both bitter and sweet as it were.
Shamnesty cannot pass without the Congress, and Feingold hasn’t slowed the flow of money into the political system, to the countrary, it has made groups far more powerful then they were beforehand....
“ESAE- McCain and his socialist scumbag pals can go eat..........”
And what are YOU getting from the Obama campaing for posting THIS worthless trash? ( to stay along the lines of YOUR post)
What I posted is REALITY. Conservatives are VASTLY outnumbered.
Conservatives didn’t even think Reagan was conservative enough in his days.
An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan
Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:05:04 PM by Diddle E. Squat
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it.
“Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
“I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’
“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/
Congratulations Mr. McCain, your brilliant strategy is working!
A recent poll indicated that 82 percent of voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction. Bush’s approval numbers ate in the lOW 30’s while congress’s are in the low 20’s.
The direction of the country is towards socialism, but of course the poll didn’t mention this.
So most Americans think your push towards socialism is the wrong direction.
What say yea?
By the way, should Lot have gone with the Angel of the Lord or stayed with McCain?
I would say that my work-place is 70% conservtive, they don’t call me.
Certainly glad we are NOT a democracy, we are a REPUBLIC.
Remember in school, “and to the republic for which it stands”
Those that did join the party did so because of Paul, but unfortunately they were smeared as kooks and lib plants. The GOP blew a huge opportunity here by alienating Ron Paul.
Not really… The way I see it, polls are garbage when it comes to defining almost anything. This is for the most part a conservative country and has been for many years. I’ve been a life-long Republican, but if any of these nit-wits ever “polled” me I think I would tell them I’m an ‘Independent Conservative’ since the Republican Party left me some time ago. That doesn’t mean I’ll ever-ever vote for a RAT. I’ll pull the “R” lever even if I have to hold my nose to do it.
Paul and his supporters should put the country first and help elect McCain to be sure Obama does not become president.
If they do not, then the criticism of Paul and co was legitimate, imo.
Republicans for years have been running socialists and telling conservatives he is the lesser of two evils.
McCain is also a socialist, most of his ideas will also destroy our country.
SCREW McCain.
If he moves right of center I may vote for him.
John McCain is a SOCIALIST, I will not vote for another socialist.
Even if elected he will not appoint conservative judges.
Name one conservative on his campign staff.
Now name the socialists.
He fought the conservative movement for 10years.
I say send him home a bitter and broken man at the hands of conservatives.
With him in office republicans in congress could not go against him.
Buy can fight a democrat.
Operation.
Chaos.
This is Tennessee. What about California, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania? I think McCain would be favored in Tennessee. I think the shift in the red/blue state map will show that places where Obama could normally count on votes will be more interesting than those places (ostensibly Tennessee) where McCain can loose conservative votes.
Is it because of GWB’s perceived ineptness?
The Rep congress with bridges to nowhere?
Natural turn of events after an 8 year rep presidency?
Are rep voters more intolerant of corruption and hypocrisy thna dems?
All may be in play. I think the fourth is very important and ignored by the MSM
So what? McCain isn’t a Republican. The people will choose between a Marxist and a Dem.
I agree...MSM will CHOKE while they report the figures rolling in on Election Eve.
Republicans are laying low and will pounce when the time is right but sssshhhh, don’t give it out. Let the libbers think they got it made. LOL
This is true, But I think Gore and Kerry were polling higher at this time in their respective races. I’ve been around this Country and that black theology thingy isn’t going to pass muster.
Well I have been polled several times and I’m one of those who no longer identify myself as a republican.
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