RE: According to Gallup:
38% of the country identifies themselves as Conservative
34% of the country identifies themselves as Moderate\
According to Battleground:
58% of the country defines itself as anywhere from “very conservative” to “somewhat conservative”.
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I’m scratching my head trying to understand the poll results from both Gallup and battleground.
Regarding Battleground, the only way we can reconcile 58% being “very conservative” to “somewhat conservative”. is for a significant number of Gallup’s moderates (about 20%) to be “somewhat conservative”.
But “somewhat conservative” is meaningless. What does that mean?
Do they support gay marriage? Do they support Obamacare?
This “somewhat conservative” is the mushy group that could vote Obama or Hillary if enough goodies are handed out.
The idea on the Battleground poll was to force people to identify one way or the other by eliminating “moderate”. The point is that the majority of folks will choose to identify as “conservative” as opposed to “liberal”.
Gallup’s latest poll showed that conservatives outnumber liberals in 47 or the 50 states.
Here is another interesting article.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/a_conservative_america.html