America Is Becoming More Conservative: Outnumbers Liberals 2 to 1
In a Gallup poll released Monday, 40% of Americans consider themselves as conservatives, compared to 20% as liberals and 36% as moderates.
This is the highest conservative percentage ever received in the 20 years Gallup has asked the question.
In 2005-2008, conservatives and moderates were equal in size. Conservatives have surpassed moderates because more moderates are claiming to be conservatives. Gallup further pointed to public opinion on many key issues shifting to the to right.
Among these issues, more Americans than in 2008 believe there is too much regulation of business, are anti-abortion, want less firearm regulation, feel that claims of global warming are exaggerated, and don't want as much labor union presence.
Interesting information. Three months after his innaguration, I predicted that Obama would go down in history as "the other Jimmy Carter" and another Democrat one-term wonder. His policies don´t make sense and his administration doesn´t have a viable plan for *anything* --- they just "wing it". Seems that more and more people are agreeing...
Here´s an interesting article about the same poll finding:
"As promised, Barack Obama is bringing change to America. He´s making it more Republican.
It´s not that more people are actually becoming Republicans or calling themselves Republicans -- the number of voters who formally identify with the party is at its lowest point in years. But we appear to be in the early stages of a shift in which political independents, people who not too long ago were sick of Republicans, are now leaning toward GOP positions on some key issues.
They still call themselves independents, but they´re worried by the left-leaning policies of President Obama and the Democratic Congress, especially on the economy. "The middle, which wanted to move away from George W. Bush, did not want to move this far left," says a Republican pollster who is tracking the shift. "They are tending to agree with what Republicans are saying more and more, despite the previous eight years." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/
Americans like the idea of cutting taxes to wealthy, re-deregulating overleveraged banking again, running up deficit with "foreign investing" (ala Reagan tripling & Bush doubling deficit) and endless undeclared unconstitutional wars.
Let´s party like it´s 2001 again and past sever years never happened!
about calling themselves "Dumb,Dumber and the Dumbest" Seriously, if they dont wake up soon, they will find themselves voting for Micley and minnie mouse for president.
Seriously how did this nation become the World superpower again!
Conservative doesn´t mean Republican . I mean the democrats are conservatives if you compare them to any center left European party (UK new Labor an exception of course)
Of course Conservatism is the refuge of the thickie ..
The Democratic Party is still seen as a far-left party by some in the U.S., but it´s really a coalition of liberals, moderates and conservatives.
For at least five years now, maybe more, the more useful dividing line between political factions in the United States is not whether they´re liberals or conservatives, but whether they´re part of the so-called "reality-based community" or not (http://en.wikipedia.org/). Thus, though I´m a liberal and bbeljefe is a conservative, he actually has more in common with me than with Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh, who continue to pursue the Bush practice of politics-as-myth-making, or faith-based policy-making.
Liberals, conservatives and moderates who live in the reality-based community can talk to one another and solve problems together. The group that has fallen out of favor and lurches toward extinction in American politics is actually made up of neocons, fundamentalists and the rest of the faith-based community, and they´re most easily distinguished by their obstructionism and insistence on adhering to worthless policies on the basis of ideology.
"Liberals, conservatives and moderates who live in the reality-based community can talk to one another and solve problems together."
Is that why Obama and Congress have secret close-door sessions about planning the healcare reform bill?
“The secrecy that surrounds White House actions rivals that of the often-criticized administration of former President George W. Bush and key decisions on health care reform now are not being made in the open but in behind the scenes negations involving three Democratic Senators: Majority Leader Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd and Max Baucus. … The secret sessions are a far cry from promises Obama made 90 days before the election when he said "I´m going to have all the negotiations around a big table," adding that the negotiations would be "televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies." http://www.capitolhillblue.com/
Obama´s speeches of bipartisanship were just that: speeches. Since entering office, he´s renigged on more promises than he´s kept: transparency in government, openess with the people in the legislation process, bipartisanship, etc.
People are tired of the BS. That´s why you´re seeing this fundamental and grass-roots shift to the right.
Obama said passing his multi-trillion-dollar bailout plan would prevent unemployment under 8%. We´re now at 9.8% and rising. We need results. Not more speeches.
Perhaps he can quit his fued with Fox news, Chamber of Commerce, and HUMANA and get back to work.
If you believe everything Glenn Beck tells you, than yes there´s a world wide liberal conspiracy led by the new world order and the only news organization standing between us and Orwell´s 1984 is Fox News.
Now excuse me while I go take my crazy pills and listen to Sean Hannity.
Your source cherry-picks its own source, oddly enough. If you look at the original Washington Post article, you´ll see a passage that shouldn´t be ignored:
"Although much of the writing of legislation happens in closed-door meetings, congressional Republicans have sharply criticized the ongoing process.
"This bill is being written in the dark of night," said House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), adding that "the president ought to keep his promise to the American people and open this process up."
"It´s ironic that Congressman Boehner would be complaining since he has refused every step of the way to participate in the effort to reform health insurance," Reid Cherlin, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. "The House and Senate have held scores of hearings on health insurance reform -- as Congressman Boehner well knows -- and at the White House we´ve held an unprecedented series of webcast meetings with key health care stakeholders to gather their input in a public forum."
Baucus played down the private nature of the group´s meetings. "In a real sense, all senators who want health-care reform are in the room because we´ll be talking to all of them, they´ll be talking to us," he said.
The three senators and Emanuel won´t be the only ones playing a role in shaping the legislation. Every member of the Senate will have a chance to offer amendments to the bill the three senators write. And even though the final legislation is expected to resemble more closely the version in the Senate, where final passage would require support from more-conservative Democrats, House Democrats have been meeting for weeks on their version of the bill."
Frankly, as someone who believes in the balance of powers and finds it refreshing that Obama does not, as Bush did, act like the dictator of the entire government, I´m glad that President Obama isn´t trying to force Congress to work on its legislation in a particular setting or format.
And are you seriously suggesting that the Republicans want to be part of this process? They proved ages ago the only role they want in the struggle to fix America´s broken health care system, in which 45,000 people die every year because they don´t have coverage, is to try to use it to destroy Obama´s presidency. They don´t want a seat at the table; they want to set the table on fire.
WashingtonExaminer is owned by the Murdoch Empire. How the Christian Science Monitor; no agendas being pushed here...
Actual Link to Abortion Polls (Gallup) http://www.gallup.com/ Link shows 1-2% difference between the two camps - who cares - yeah real %&$&* victory. Notice the poll below shows that while the fundamentalists in both camps are equally balanced; the moderates overwhelmingly support abortions - *under certain conditions*.
The one thing I can say about the CSmonitor is that "I approve of it´s search engine.". You can search for the author´s other articles and check if he/she is ´mono-thematic´. :)
please don´t call me a conservative. I don´t even care to be called a "true" conservative... because even true conservatives have always favored secular government. I favor a completely non secular government and therefore should be called either a classical liberal or a libertarian.
Classical conservatives, now known as constitutionalists, maintain the idea that religion should dictate governmental policy.
But yeah... I think we see eye to eye on a lot of things and when we don´t, we can at least understand the opposing viewpoint.
I was thinking the same thing here. I know what the summary is SUPPOSED to mean and it is sad that people are still confused over conservative and liberal in their true meaning and not the Red vs Blue stat nonsense.
"carnold the source does not report that: "Conservatives have surpassed moderates because more moderates are claiming to be conservatives."
Yes, it did. Per site policy, you cannot borrow from the source "word-for-word". That, of course, would be plagiarism. To submit a summary, you must summarize the article in your own words. If you were looking for a direct quote, you would have missed the connection. However, if you would have read the source (link provided) you would have found it.
Per the source... "According to Gallup, conservatives overtook moderates because more independents now view themselves as conservative."
I think you need to rephrase your comments there. Secular government means a government without religious beliefs, which I think is what you (and I) support but conservatives don´t..
Gallup accounts for ALL americans? Or can even equal to what might be considered the vast majority of americans, and their own political stance? Give me a F***ing break! This is the most un-legit poll I have ever seen.
