Posted on 02/01/2014 6:44:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Two polls in January 2014 confirm what I have written about for quite a while: America -- and this means not just Flyover Country, but nearly all of America -- is solidly conservative.
The Battleground Poll shows that a very solid majority of Americans describe themselves as conservative. This poll has been remarkably accurate in predicting the outcome of elections. The internal data of the Battleground Poll, unlike many other polls, is publicly reported.
Since 2002, there have been more than twenty Battleground Poll surveys reported by George Washington University, and the results of these polls show big swings in the support for political parties, national priorities, and policy positions. Yet in every single case, respondents to the Battleground Poll overwhelmingly describe themselves as "conservative."
Historically, polls have seldom asked direct questions about ideology, but an interesting exception in past decades has been the American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, published by Harvard University Press. The 1980 edition of this publication is little more than hundreds of pages of dry data, presented without editorial opinion. Harvard is not hotbed of conservatism. If there were any bias, surely it would be to make conservatism look like a despised minority within American society.
The data of Table 2.22 on page 95 of the sourcebook presents the percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "liberal" and "conservative" for the four years reported: 1972 (27% conservative and 19% liberal), 1974 (26% conservative and 21% liberal), 1976 (25% conservative and 15% liberal), and 1978 (28% conservative and 20% liberal). The data of Table 2.23 on the same page reports survey results from even-numbered years since 1964, and this data, although calibrated obscurely, shows the same preponderance of conservatives over liberals for each even numbered year from 1964 to 1978.
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Claire Wolfe was wrong when she said in 1995: “America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
It IS time to start taking out the bastards, because massive vote fraud ensures nothing will change. See Vince Flynn's “Term Limits”.
Now, if we ONLY had someone to represent us to the world as that!
Exactly right. Culturally, this country is lock-step moral relativist, politically correct, and lost.
EVERY world view message in the mass media is poisonous.
Have you ever stopped to think that NOT voting is not a conservative value?
I HATED Romney; didn’t ever vote for the Father of Counterfeit “Marriage” in America. But I NEVER contemplated “staying home” on Election Day. Such a notion is the polar extreme of conservatism.
You hit the nail on the head. “Conservatives” are interested in maintaining the status quo. I’m sure a lot of depraved folks like things the way they are. In reality, many of us detest the new status quo, and want to roll it back. So technically we don’t want to “conserve” what is, but change it.
It was said that Mitt didn't want to be president. His campaign sure looked like it.
Or maybe the Republican elite saw no need to campaign. They thought dissatisfaction with Obie was so great, they could just phone it in. Or maybe at least some of them wanted Obama to win.
Whatever happened, it looks like we will have the same situation in 2014 and 2016 unless we the People van press for strong conservative candidates who will campaign aggressively.
Good I thought it was just me
> I think if an insider even contemplated coming forward with the fraud problem he/she would disappear within hours.
Anytime there is only an electronic “paper” trail the potential for fraud is enormous. One of my skillsets is fraud investigation but it doesn’t take an
investigator to know that the electronic voting systems and that data collection process could be hacked. All you have to do to pull it off is put the benefactor’s buddies in charge of the investigations (i.e FEC, Holder, DOJ, etc...)
I find very few
A poll can tell us that America is “conservatives”, but that’s not what election returns say ad nauseum.
Judging by the many Saul Alinsky type of posts directed at me on FR....I don’t think this poll is right
Some folks call themselves Conservative and have zero clue what being a Conservative is. Just being GOP Does not make one a conservative
And Democrats still can cheat to win elections.
Your post #10 was spot on...and more eloquent than I could put it
Anyone who calls him or herself a conservative but votes for Obama is either an idiot or deceiving him or herself or the pollsters.
The entitlement army is in control.
Caliph Baraq winning with $4 gas, 8% unemployment (13% real), surging food prices, Benghazi, and trillion dollar deficits in perpetuity tells you who is “conservative” and who isn’t.
“This country due to immigration and brainwashed gen Y...Has never ever ever been as liberal as now”
Come on, wardaddy. Check out the 1964 presidential election.
LBJ - 486 electoral votes.
Goldwater - 52
Here’s a map: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1964
Incidentally, the so-called “Greatest Generation” voted overwhelmingly for the fascist LBJ.
I think the IRS slowed the flow of donations to GOP PACS that couldn't get IRS tax-exempt status.
It sure looked like Mitt didn't want to be President.
That, too.
Thanks. I wish I were wrong, though.
Reality shows the polls are wrong.-Tom
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