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Iowa Poll: Iowa leans conservative, offering potential for GOP
2009-11-30
More Iowans consider themselves to be conservatives than moderates or liberals, offering the state's Republican Party a potentially large pool of converts as it struggles to win back voters, according to a new Iowa Poll.

Most current and former Iowa Republicans agree on two reasons why the party has lost elections and voters. It has nominated lackluster candidates, and officeholders have neglected to make spending control a top priority, according to the poll.

But Iowans who have fallen away from the GOP differ with current members in how they view the party's tone and tactics:

  • By roughly 2-to-1, former Republicans say the party's lawmakers have become too partisan, have become the party of "no," and have made some people feel unwelcome.

  • Three times as many former Republicans as current members say the party is controlled by the religious right.

  • More than 60 percent of Republicans who have left the party say it has focused too much on social issues such as abortion, compared with roughly 40 percent of party regulars.

Iowa Republican leaders say they're optimistic about the 2010 elections, citing rising dissatisfaction with majority Democrats at the Iowa Statehouse and in Washington, D.C., and a national swing among independent voters away from the party in charge.
Posted by:Fred

#1  FOX NEWS AM > NEIL CAVUTO Segment [Guests includ KARL ROVE, etal.] > seems the BAMMER is in SERIOUS DISCONNECT wid many DEMOCRATS = LIBERALS + PROGRESSIVES. However, the DEMS/DEMOLEFT still want to give the Bammer a chance, or in the alternate amy try to work wid GOP-Right in Congress to force barack back into the DemoLeft-fold. GUESTS > believe the GOP-Right will gain andor regain House-Senate seats in 2010, espec in the HOUSE???

Also indic on CAVUTO'S SHOW > IIHC seems the only thing remining in Amer these days that is "LEFTIST" IS THE MEDIA ["The Left in Amer is the Media"]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-11-30 23:45  

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