Can anyone really be surprised?
Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.
~~~Conservatism is most prevalent among Republicans. However, the overall increase in this ideological stance since 2008 comes largely from political independents, among whom 35% say they are conservatives thus far in 2009 — compared with 29% last year. Independents have also become more conservative on a number of specific policy issues, including government and union power, the role of government relative to promoting values, gun laws, immigration, global warming, and abortion. Republicans, most of whom considered themselves ideologically conservative in 2008, have also grown more conservative on several of these issues this year, while less change is seen among Democrats.
All of this has potentially important implications at the ballot box, particularly for the 2010 midterm elections. The question is whether increased conservatism, particularly among independents, will translate into heightened support for Republican candidates. Right now, it appears it may. Although Gallup polling continues to show the Democratic Party leading the Republican Party in Americans’ party identification, that lead has been narrowing since the beginning of the year and now stands at six points, the smallest since 2005.
And as Obama and company try to push our country further to the left we will continue to see polls like these:
Bob McDonnell, Virginia’s Republican nominee for governor, holds an 11 percentage point lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds, according to a new Washington Post poll released Monday.
McDonnell, the former state attorney general, leads Deeds 55 percent to 44 percent in the Post poll, a two point increase since the last survey. Deeds’s support remained static at 44 percent in both polls, but McDonnell has cut into the number of undecided voters to pad his lead over the Democratic state senator.
Obama pushes us to Socialism and America will push back. Conservative values like a strong foreign policy, fiscal restraint, pro-capitalism and pro-business become the mainstream once again, as it should be.
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IMO a lot of ppl. have no idea they are conservative. If you go over the points with them, its almost startling how little ppl. in general understand. All my friends were “liberal/Demo” until the Pres. Campaign when we all started bickering (which i determined to be the product of ABB syndrome – Anything But Bush) . When we went over the points.. I converted half my friends to the Conservative side of the force(though from there belief structure they already were and just went along with parents political affiliation).
Sadly, 1/3rd decided they couldn’t be friends with someone who was in there opinion a “Republican Pig”… But, as we here say “just time to cut out the pork”. 🙂
Hopefully together we will push back the nightmarish thought of Socialism, and honor those who died in the past to stop the spread of it and its older brother Communism.
Hungry people don’t embrace conservative ideology. If the joblessness continues to increase and the gap between rich and poor continues, there will be more than just socialism in government to concern America.
I don’t think we can count on jobless and homeless conservatives to remain satisfied with their lot in life forever. Or do we? Or do we naively believe that only Democrats are laid off?
An idle population can become restless and uneasy. We should be concerned about this Wall Street recovery and the lack of a job recovery.
Four banks knocked over in this area in the past four weeks does not bode well for Republicans or Democrats.
Kindlingman, Progressive Marxism, Socialism, Statism, and Communism only serves to create a peasant class ruled over by Elites. Americans are not likely to sit around and have Third World Status imposed upon them and tolerate their wealth being redistributed to dictators and war lords in urine hole countries around the world.
This is the basic plan of our Marxist in Chief and apparently it has been his focus since he was an undergraduate. Doing this to the American people is like poking a mild natured pit bull with a stick, everything will be fine until he decides he has had enough, then it’s too late to start being nice and giving speeches. Your arse will be chewed up and there is nothing you can do to stop the attack.
“Four banks knocked over in this area in the past four weeks does not bode well for Republicans or Democrats.”
It does open the door to fiscal responsibility. A long time Conservative Value among many others.
I am not Party affiliated because of the past and present poor performance of both Democrats and Republicans. The Rape, Pillage and Plunder of the Taxpayer and the Treasury must be stopped. Government needs to be managed responsibly by both elected and appointed officials that are responsive to more than 14% of the population.
You cannot Tax, Borrow and Spend any Nation to Prosperity. That has been proven worldwide for many years. Even the EU knows that as do Russia and China.Everything that has and will happen after 20 Jan, 09 is Obama’s responsibility. By Law. The Democrats have had a clear Majority in Congress since 06. Every dollar spent is on their watch. Period. By Law. They have betrayed the Public Trust by indulging in record spending to no positive result. Obama promised to Veto Earmarks and has NOT.
It is time for Conservatives to intervene and the American Voters to wise up.
Skookum, I wasn’t referring to political ideology but to criminality and violent protests.
There is little likelihood of the US developing a Marxist or Communist government regardless of how many people call Obama those names. Those who think that way have not considered it very deeply. As for socialism, the word is used inappropriately today and I don’t know if there is a word to describe the role of government in America currently.
I think that Obama is also a bit conservative in certain aspects. For example, he didn’t take Michelle, Malia and Sacha to his trip to Saudi Arabia(Muslims don’t like women to intrude in the affairs of men). Most recently, he has been criticized for playing basketball only with the guys…that even NOW has gotten a bit mad about it(Muslims don’t like women to interfere with men).
In the things that matter most to them in their personal lives, the vast majority of liberals are conservative.