Posted on 05/22/2009 8:14:35 PM PDT by Man50D
Conservatives are holding their own, while the ranks of independents have skyrocketed since November's presidential election, the latest Pew Research Center poll shows.
The poll of 3,013 adults from March 31 to April 21 found that there had been "no consistent movement away from conservatism, nor a shift toward liberalism" since the election. Republican losses are slowing, the poll found, while Democrats have begun losing ground too. And independent and unaffiliated voters are approaching record highs.
The implications for the president, Congress and the political parties in the next election could be profound. Among the results:
* Thirty-nine percent of adults now call themselves independent in Pew's poll of party identification and values. When it comes to all things Washington, independents are "more skittish than they were two years ago about expanding the social safety net and are reluctant backers of greater government involvement in the private sector," the poll said. * People identifying themselves as Democrats have slipped from 39 percent in December to 33 percent now. * People identifying themselves as Republicans have fallen from 26 percent to 22 percent, their lowest level in 25 years, according to Pew. However, among Republicans, 66 percent call themselves conservative, up from 60 percent in 2,000. * Overall, independent voters lean Democratic. That is typical for the Pew poll, though it also shows conservatism is rising among unaffiliated voters: 33 percent say they are conservative, up from 28 percent in 2007 and 26 percent in 2005.
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Or claiming that you’ve left a budget surplus at the end of your presidency by yanking money out of one debt column to pay off another. Not that any president’s done that before. *cough*
Looks like the bloom is off the stinkweed.
To be clear...
Since December 2008
Democrats: 39 to 33.
Republicans: 26 to 22.
Independents: 30 to 39.
The Independents are growing by leaps and bound, while the other parties bleed members.
This is a PEW poll though.
I’d rather be seeing actual registration figures.
If I were the Republican party, I’d take one look at the RINOS we’ve been suffering for the last twenty years, and tell them to go pound sand. Then I’d get to work figuring out the best way to deliver the Conservative Good News in a motivational manner.
Right now, the only thing I hate more than Republicans is Democrats.
Other than that, I agreed with it.
I almost changed the voter registration for me to Independent. It would make no difference in voting, because I would still vote for the conservative candidate. But, I decided not to change it and keep it as Republican, because I still wanted to have some effect on the primary...
Believe me I loathes the RINOs but there are good Repubs or should I say conservatives fighting the fight like Palin and Michelle Bachmann.
The Democrats are just pure evil.
What is weird is these polls showing a majority of Americans oppose abortions?
I guess Notre Dame never got the memo.
And it is after all the PEW reasearch group. Lefties can’t stand anything that might suggest they are all wet
Only if the third party is a true conservative/libertarian/constitutionalist party otherwise you merely have Democrats 2.0.
Only if the third party is a true conservative/libertarian/constitutionalist party otherwise you merely have Democrats 2.0.
I take Pew polls with a five pound bag of salt. Ras is so much better.
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There are a lot of states with closed primaries. The decline of “moderates” in the GOP will hopefully mean that the more conservative candidates will win the primaries in those states.
I’m thinking specifically of PA and Pat Toomey for Senate.
I hope conservative moderates out there come back to the GOP in time for the 2012 presidential election. We don’t want another McCain to win the primary.
I've been registered as an independent voter since 1966. In late 2007, I seriously contemplated registering as a Republican for the same reason you remain in the party. Then I found out about the skulduggery the WV GOP had planned for 2008. The GOP held a "first ever" WV Republican Presidential Convention on Super Tuesday, three months before WV's May 13th primary election. There, WV GOP insiders chose 18 of the state's 27 representatives to the national convention. (it was also this sham that all but assured McCain a victory) The rank and file Republicans in WV would only be allowed to choose the remaining 9 slots, three from each of the three Cong. Dists.
With corruption like this in the in the GOP, I saw no reason to join.
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