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| Gallup Poll: Conservatives 42%, Liberals 21% |
| 2011-11-08 |
| (CNSNews.com) - Self-professed conservatives now outnumber self-professed liberals in the United States, 42 percent to 21 percent, according to a Gallup poll published Monday. Another 37 percent described themselves as moderates. The percentages are based on Gallup's daily tracking polls conducted from June 1 to Aug. 31 of this year. Over the past two decades, according to Gallup, the percentage of Americans describing themselves as conservative has gradually increased, rising from 36 percent who said they were conservative in 1992. The percentage who described themselves as liberal rose from 17 percent in 1992 to a high of 22 percent in 2007 and 2008. Since then, the percentage saying they were liberal has held steady at 21 percent. |
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| #12 42% individuals vs 21% mindless minions means we still lose. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2011-11-08 22:50 |
| #11 Although interesting, the problem with such polls is that we don't know what "conservative, moderate, or liberal" means to the respondents. 37 percent described themselves as moderates? A moderate might really be quite liberal. The meanings of these words are imprecise and fuzzy. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-11-08 18:00 |
| #10 "I think you should leave "ideological purity tests" to the left, especially if you want to win elections." Exactly, BP. The perfect is the enemy of the good. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-11-08 13:04 |
| #9 Right BP - however the left will usually wait until after they are in power before trotting out the ole "ideological purity tests" along with the old standby "loyalty test". See Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, etc.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-11-08 12:20 |
| #8 What Bright Pebbles said. When I lived in San Francisco I was considered a reactionary (pro-life, anti-gun control). Now that I live in a small town in Nevada, I'm considered liberal (anti-war on drugs, don't care about gay marriage). A lot of these things have to do with context. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2011-11-08 11:57 |
| #7 Joe Stalin gave the communists a bad name so now they call themselves Democrats, liberals, progressives or whatever. If it quacks like a duck... |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-11-08 11:55 |
| #6 I think you should leave "ideological purity tests" to the left, especially if you want to win elections. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-11-08 11:27 |
| #5 When the body politic begins voting to reflect the poll, I 'll begin to believe it. And, there is a new term that liberals are adopting to disguise their socialist progressive agenda. It is "moderate". |
| Posted by: Highlander 2011-11-08 10:45 |
| #4 As in any matter of self identification, many of these professed "conservatives" would not be objectively recognized as such... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2011-11-08 10:45 |
| #3 coming Next! Occupy Gallup Poll. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-11-08 09:57 |
| #2 I'm sure the next election cycle we'll see an end to liberal and progressives in favor of some new term hoping to avoid being pinned down to the nightmare that is their political belief system. Say what you want about the communists at all these protests, ignorant as they are about just about everything at least they say who they are and what they believe in. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2011-11-08 08:01 |
| #1 ...however, in the MSM the ratio is totally non-reflective of those numbers. One day some executive will wake up to those numbers and corner the market at the expense of his/her competitors. Well at least until the competitors can get their agents in Congress to pass legislation to end the competition regardless of the 1st Amendment. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-11-08 07:59 |