Posted on 11/03/2010 7:47:45 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
Most people who voted in Election 2010 on the East Coast think the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are and describe the views of most congressional Democrats as extreme. These results come from a Rasmussen Reports telephone polling of people who have already voted in states in the Eastern Time Zone.
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of these voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are. Only 10% say that member of Congress is more conservative, while 27% see his or her views as about the same as theirs.
Fifty-five percent (55%) say it’s more accurate to describe the political views of most Democrats in Congress as extreme rather than mainstream. Just 36% think the views of congressional Democrats are more accurately described as mainstream.
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The survey of 1,000 Voters in the Eastern time zone was conducted on November 2, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
By contrast, only 42% of voters say the average Republican in Congress is more conservative than they are. Twenty-six percent (26%) say that congressman is more liberal, and 24% say their views are about the same.
Voters are almost evenly divided when asked to describe the views of most Republicans on Congress: 44% say mainstream, while 42% say extreme.
Look for more results from Rasmussen Reports as the evening goes on.
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Democrats in Congress are extreme: 55% Republicans in Congress are extreme: 42%
Democrats’ extremism gap: 13%
Democrats in Congress are extreme: 55%
Republicans in Congress are extreme: 42%
Media extremism is even more prevalent. I’m repeating this post:
I’m slow on the uptake, but did anyone else get A FREE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER starting in SEPTEMBER and ending in DECEMBER????
I was reading it and found it to be totally DEMOCRAT ELECTION PROPAGANDA ! ! ! !
This was the TOLEDO BLADE, btw. And depicted Kasich as a clown, and Strickland as Thomas Jefferson.
I think I’ll write a LETTER TO THE EDITOR!
How widespread was this dinosaur media CONSPIRACY???
This needs to be the mantra in 2012. Dems are the extreme candidate not us. Unfortunately, when Angle and Buck got tagged with those labels, it hurt them. Toomey punched back and called Sestak extreme and I think it helped him. The press would be forced to report as they did in PA that each side was calling the other extreme as to neutralize that adjective.
I guess that is why they have to give the paper away!
The Blue Dogs got purged in this election cycle. This means that the remaining dems in Congress will be more left = perceived to be more extreme. Bring on 2012!
You *have* to be extreme to win as a PA democrat. Even Obama isn’t left enough for them. Now that everything backfired, they have to live with it.
Yes indeed. The point is that they did this RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION and end it RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION.
Well, the ones that won today, esp. in the House, are.
They’re Leninist-totalitarians.
I actually have a good feeling about Manchin, but that’s just a gut feeling.
Manchin is up for re-election in 2012.
Democrats’ extremism gap: 13%
Democrats in Congress are EXTREME: 55%
Republicans in Congress are extreme: 42%
Democrats in Congress are maintream: 36%
Republicans in Congress are MAINSTREAM: 44%
Well, what I liked about him was when the coal miners were buried. He was there. He went to the families, arms outstretched.
Meanwhile, people skirted 0bama/Biden like the plague, except for the lady 0bama grabbed and held onto with his plastic smile on the way out—at a funeral, no less, waving to what, the paid mourners?
The GOP saw an influx of RINO Republicans (Democrats who abandoned the Socialist party that took over the Democrat Party).
Effectively the political middle was pushed Left even though the public ideologically does not break that way.
The Democrats need to take their party back from the Socialist Greens who took it over. They can even have some incumbent “RINOs” back.
That makes 45% of my fellow Americans either brain dead or asleep at the wheel.
The Left is alive and well and dangerous; the Far Left was the biggest loser yesterday. Hopefully they’ll be a laughingstock for decades to come.
I’m confused, then!
If this is so, then why did so many democrats win election/reelection in places like Connecticut, Massachusetts, Deleware, Maine, Maryland, etc? Are these states not in the Eastern time zone?
Hey, this is a start.
It is objective data that counters the state-run media mantra.
All in due time.
All in due time.
The nation will now marinate in the results of this election, realizing that they are not alone in their own up-until-now-private disapproval of 0bamacare, bailouts and the intrusive and leviathan federal monster!
Oh yeah, like lower taxes and smaller government is extreme.
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