New Gallup Poll Finds 40% of America Conservative– 20% Liberal
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, October 26, 2009, 5:14 AM
A new poll released by Gallup found 40% of Americans consider themselves conservative.
Only 20% of Americans consider themselves far left liberals like Barack Obama.
Gallup reported:
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.
For the record… This also shows how weak the Republican Party has become.
If there are twice as many conservatives as liberals in the country and the GOP holds minority status in the current government, there is something terribly wrong with the Republican Party leadership.
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nick commented:
I’d like to see how religion plays into the numbers. Not sure how it would push the results, but would like to see how many are pushed away or pulled to the conservative movement due to religious roots. Would be beneficial to know whether it’s conservatism borne out of religious roots or a secular trend that happens to share a similar tailwind but is not the driver.
BurmaShave commented:
Note: This is the only time in the history of this chart that Liberals dropped by 2 percentage points in a 6 month period, and also only the second time that conservatives increase by 3 percentage points in a 6 month period.
Sue commented:
Which makes you wonder how the most liberal president ever manages to get 55% approval in their poll.
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Mats commented:
Needless to say that this was a racist poll.
Aitch748 commented:
Nancy Pelosi recently responded to a question about the constitutionality of having the federal government requiring every American to buy healthcare insurance from the government with, in effect, “Are you freaking kidding me?!!! Next question!”
Every week our would-be overlords take another dump on our collective heads. You’d think they’d notice after a while that they were alienating the independent voters.
Moonbat Killer commented:
ok can we now stop electing liberal dems?
Robb76 commented:
Sure we can Moonbat. Just as soon as the other party gives us some real conservative candidates.
Steve commented:
And the public favors the GOP on ALL TEN of the most important issues of the day….
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/trust_on_issues
serpent commented:
Liberals hardly ever consider themselves to be liberal. To most liberals there are two political positions: moderate and ultra conservative.
a soon-to-be-former-democrat commented:
“it’s conservatism borne out of religious roots or a secular trend”
I always considered myself a moderate democrat… but after seeing the Marxist in the WH’s promote his Marxist policies, I am realising I am probably a conservative… a fiscal/national security conservative, but I am more moderate when it comes to social issues.
When you have someone so radical and frankly anti-american as Obama in the WH… someone who espouses Marxism and had advisors who think Mao is their aspiration… well, pretty much most of the country is conservative compared to this..
I will NOT vote for repubs (Snowe..etc).. but I will vote for conservatives like Doug Hoffman, with whom I disagree on on social issues, but am complete agreement when it comes to fiscal, national security, indivisual liberty rights.
And yes, I am a recovering liberal… and yes it is a mentally deranged way of looking at things.
ahem commented:
Then who voted for Obama?
I agree, most people who consider themselves ‘Moderates’ are actually Leftist dupes. This survey is misleading.
Galt commented:
I’ll believe they’re conservative when they reject the “trust gubmint more than the people” policies.
Progressivism has been at work for a century, and I simply don’t see the culture as being ready to trust people to handle their own affairs or exercise their rights to property and/or association.
No, we want to protect people from themselves. Which is a nice sentiment, but is much too easily co-opted by tyrants, and is not to be confused with the tough love of conservativism.
a soon-to-be-former-democrat commented:
“themselves ‘Moderates’ are actually Leftist dupes.”
most moderates are independents and in actuality liberatians… smaller govt, fiscal respon., strong national defense, lower taxes, and want to be left alone when it comes to social choices.
… I voted for Palin/Mccain as a registered democrat… its the repubs who didn’t turn up to vote for Mccain, 6 million repubs who voted for Bush did not show to vote for Mccain…
I never did understand why conservatives didn’t back Mccain, but after seeing Mccain NOT back Cheney’s CORRECT assement of the Marxist-in-chief this past weekend, I can see why… Mccain is almost a democrat.
most indies like me are sick of both parties, I will back anyone who backs American values.. things like smaller govt, fiscal responsibilty, strong national defense, private property rights, individual rights, preservation of the US consitution…. these aren’t “conservative” values, these are American values. More and more independents get this and see this, even the ones who were duped into thinking Obama was a moderate and made the mistake of voting for him.
Galt commented:
I think people sensed (with cause) that McCain trusts government more than he trusts people — both individually as persons or in the aggregate as markets. His posture wasn’t about defending the individual; it seemed more about negotiating the compromise of the individual. IOW, Democrat-lite.
So it is nice to see people remembering the spirit and the purpose of the original Boston Tea Party. And I’d love to think that the independent streak is going mainstream. But with half the population bought off with entitlements, I want to see it before I believe it.
Robert commented:
While there is some change among the population, what this poll shows is more the changing of the definitions rather than the people.
With a supposedly conservative Republican party fielding liberal candidates, and Democrats running under conservative rhetoric, the defining lines have been shifting and blurred toward the left.
Add the percentage of the populace that appears to favor “re-distribution” and one’s sense of satisfaction with this graph must be somewhat tempered.
BackwardsBoy commented:
My, my. Sure is funny how people, once they see that “progressivism” is really anti-Americanism, change their opinion.
KR commented:
Food for thought:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2kAV4-bskY&feature=related
GOP08_DOA commented:
Yeah too bad the wack-a-doodle fringe right, Palin-istas, teabaggers, racists, tenthers, Fox news junkies, etc. have totally ruined any chances of actually convincing these so called “conservatives” to vote republican. I guess that’s what you get for blindly supporting GWB for 8 years straight.
Pat the First commented:
Sure we can Moonbat. Just as soon as the other party gives us some real conservative candidates.
I would take a moderate GOP over a liberal Dem any day of the week. I would rather have a moderate/conservative Congress than what we have today. Let’s not cut off our nose just to spite our face.
Pat the First commented:
I never did understand why conservatives didn’t back Mccain, but after seeing Mccain NOT back Cheney’s CORRECT assement of the Marxist-in-chief this past weekend, I can see why… Mccain is almost a democrat.
I would rather have McCain in office than B.O. It is a case of “cutting off your nose to spite your face”. Those GOPs who would not vote for McCain are guilty of putting us in this place.
KR commented:
I have posted this clip in the past. Here it again for anyone who missed it.
America’s true form of government:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE&feature=related
The political spectrum helps sort out the root understanding of various positions (libertarian vs moderate, etc.). It is the level of how much government control there is.
Solaratov commented:
GOP08_DOA
October 26th, 2009 | 10:03 am | #20
Iguess that if we’re “teabaggers”, that would make you (our opposite numbers) be the teabaggees.
Open wide, nancy-boy!
Chisum commented:
Poor poor GOP08_DOA, reduced to spewing names.
Chisum commented:
Oh, and GOP08_DOA, Rasmussen has your messiah at -12. How’s that hope and change working out for you?
Robert commented:
Pat the First
A “moderate GOP” is a liberal Republican. Once you accept that as your standard, then the goalposts get shifted toward more government.
AS for McCain, he is the current head of the party, and is wielding influence toward the moderate direction. Which means we are supposed to put up with his lukewarm policies. He is steering donors to the candidates that he favors, setting them up in positions, doing things like that.
We have to make a stand somewhere, and make the point, even if it hurts the immediate political outcomes. Otherwise, it would just be a slow and constant capitulation to the leftward-statist drift of both parties.
You do what you have to today if you must, I’m looking a little farther ahead. If I have to live with liberal philosophies, I would rather they come from the liberal party than a ‘conservative in name only’ one.
Slappy commented:
GOP08_DOA: “Yeah too bad the wack-a-doodle fringe right, Palin-istas, teabaggers, racists, tenthers, Fox news junkies, etc. have totally ruined any chances of actually convincing these so called ‘conservatives’ to vote republican. I guess that’s what you get for blindly supporting GWB for 8 years straight.”
Talk about wishful thinking. That is not a good replacement for logic and sound reasoning, though you and others on the Left haven’t yet figured that out with your sophomoric online tantrums, like this one. Conservatives are down on the GOP but it will simply take a return to the party’s core principles for them to return to the fold. I can practically guarantee you that the mid-term elections will see this return to the fold by conservatives because the GOP leadership will acquiesce to the desire among the country — lead by conservatives — for less spending and less intrusion into the business sector and our lives by the federal government.
“Blindly supporting GWB for 8 years straight”?!? I guess you missed the strong disagreements between Bush and Republicans on the Dubai ports deal, Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court, immigration policy, “No Child Left Behind,” failure to deal with the Iranian nukes issue, support for moderates over conservative candidates in elections (e.g., Arlen Specter), etc. See, the reason Bush’s approval rating plummeted from a floor of 40% to the mid- to upper-20% range was not the ongoing Democrat opposition to him, but the Republicans abandoning him early in his second term because of his left-leaning policies. But, hey, why should you actually try to be intellectually honest when instead you can post talking points and the type of drivel that Paul Begala would write for a Democrat fundraising letter.
tj commented:
What does it matter what you are?
The government does whatever they want to do whether a liberal or conservative is President. They just sit back and laugh at “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” They know it’s really “government of the people, BY THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.”
When are you going to wake up?
Why do you continue to believe the left vs. right lie?
Robb76 commented:
Pat the First,
I live in the land of Snowe and Collins and I, a registered republican, will not vote for either.
I will not vote for any pro-infanticide canditate.
If that means I am cutting off my nose, well hand me the knife.
Chip Bennett commented:
With all due respect, voting for the GOP “establishment” candidate is what got us where we are today. The disenchantment of the electorate that led to the super-majorities for the liberals just expedited the process.
In the end, what did electing Chafee, Snowe, Collins, Specter, et al benefit the GOP? Nothing, except legislative gridlock (at best) or acquiescence to the liberals (at worst) – and subsequent election smack-downs.
I’d rather force the question now, than face a slow death – and now that Americans are facing the reality of far-left, liberal ideology, they are rejecting it in droves.
If that means we lose a few more elections here and there (e.g. Scozzafava, Crist), in order to ensure our right to put forth candidates that truly reflect Conservative values and beliefs, then so be it.
We must take our party back, one precinct at a time.
onthow commented:
– Jameg G. Gimpel
These are the people that gave us Obama.
Thanks!
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MThlM2RmMDg3ZGQ5OGNlZDZhMmY0MjAwZWNiMTNiOTA=
Robb76 commented:
As I read these posts, I am reminded of Sen Grahams comment about his not wanting to be the party of angry white men. Wow, Lots of us
are angry white men and many of us are not white.
Solaratov commented:
Robb76
October 26th, 2009 | 3:21 pm | #36
Wow, Lots of us
are angry white men and many of us are not white.
Funny what exposure to truth will do for you, isn’t it?
Make it Happen commented:
Liberalism is a mental disorder. I’m surprised even 20 percent would admit to this.