Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Even according to the Liberal Blog - Salon.com...

...we have Great News! We are still a "Center Right" country! Over at Salon.com - they actually had an article by their one and only conservative who won't even use his/her name but worked in the Bush Administration. He/She says we are still center right. See the whole article here.
In June, a survey from the Gallup Organization showed that 40 percent of Americans interviewed described themselves as "conservative." Another 35 percent said they were "moderate" while 21 percent said they were "liberal." Conservatives, despite the results of the last two national elections, outnumber liberals by 2-to-1. If you add the moderates into one of the two camps by the same 2-to-1 ratio, the conservative position is easily the majority.These are all dominant issues in America's political life, issues that command national attention with some intensity. Admittedly, polls are snapshots of opinions in time. It's certainly possible to find equally reputable pollsters who can produce data that shows something else, but what about when people vote, "the only poll that counts," as someone once said. Looking at it this way, where issues are on the ballot rather than candidates -- when actual positions on policy are not obscured by political personalities and partisan preference -- there is still plenty of evidence the center-right position usually prevails. When government spending and revenues are out of balance the liberal position is almost always to increase revenues by raising taxes. In California, which Barack Obama carried in 2008 with 61 percent of the vote, a recent statewide ballot measure to raise taxes to balance the budget was defeated with 64 percent of the vote. More than that, it failed to win a majority of the vote in a single county in what is the nation's most populous state. This is the same state where voters have twice approved ballot measures to prevent recognition of an expanded definition of marriage as something more than being between a man and a woman. America is neither a liberal nor a conservative country, but conservatives believe it skews to the right. From a political standpoint, conservatism as a political force is much where it was after 1964, 1976 and 1992, when the Johnson, Carter and Clinton presidential victories had most pundits believing the country had lurched off its traditional ideological axis. But those elections were followed by the conservative victories of 1966, 1978, 1980, 1994 and 2000 as the country's traditional alignment reasserted itself.

4 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

It does little good to be a conservative country when our leaders are far left. November, 2010 seems a million years away. I shudder to think how much damage Obama, Pelosi and Reid can do in that time.

Anonymous said...

Shuddering, too!

Mark said...

I believe those numbers are misleading, and not just because of the time the poll was taken, either.

Many of those darn Liberals often claim they aren't Liberal, but Progressive, moderate, and even centrist, but to call them a Liberal is an insult.

So if you count those who claim to be moderate together with those who admit to being Liberal, your Liberal number is closer to 50%.

Real moderates are those who have no opinion, which means they are the ones who only concern themselves with TV and music, and no nothing of politics.

Tonto said...

You are right Mark...they are easily swayed...and there A LOT OF THEM...so it continues to mystify that on FACTS ALONE...which seems so simple...the Republicans without denigrating the other side...but jsut by common sense cannot stage a comeback and win over these moderates and defeat Obama's stupid legislation.