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.
Ask the members of this board who thought it better to stay home holding their breath and stomping their feet, whining about not voting for “the lesser of two evils”.
True or not, the only poll that counts is the one we hold every other November.
The article doesn't appear to confirm the numbers given in the headline. And in fact, those numbers don't appear on the website.
You're closer to what the body of the article says:
Nationally, this polling data shows that 36% of Americans call themselves conservative and 36% call themselves moderates, while 23% call themselves liberal.
So why Obama?
1) Those moderates broke in favor of the Democrats.
2) About 20% of Democrats call themselves conservative. Once upon a time many of them were more conservative than many Republicans and voted for the GOP in presidential elections. That's a lot less true now. Assuming today's conservative Democrats still don't like liberals, they like Republicans a lot less (and some may not be willing to admit that their Democrat candidates actually are liberals). So there are people out there who call themselves conservative, but habitually vote Democrat. By contrast, only about 5% of Republicans call themselves liberals.
Here is why:
Pollster: Do you consider yourself liberal or conservative?
Lifetime Democrat: Conservative of course.
It is a meaningless poll with regard to this particular element.
Its not who votes but who counts the votes that matters.
“Then why on Earth do we have Obama? “
1. Gerrymandering
2. voter fraud
3. Low turnout
36% Moderates + 23% Liberals = 59%.
Any other questions?