Anyone who's been paying attention has known this for some time now. Rush Limbaugh first clued me to this fact last year by citing the Battleground Poll, the polls themselves used to be available on the web, but can be no longer found. The upshot though is available in an American Thinker article from last year called The Biggest Missing Story in Politics which Mr. Limbaugh also cited. Bruce Walker the author has updated the story with an even more remarkable and convincing data set from the most recent Battleground poll which has omitted question D3 which asks the respondents what they consider their ideology to be, in favor of more detailed questions.
"Two questions replace the old Question D3. Now Americans were asked on social issues if they were "very conservative," "somewhat conservative," "moderate," "somewhat liberal" or "very liberal" as well as on fiscal issues if they were "very conservative," "somewhat conservative," "moderate," "somewhat liberal," or "very liberal." The Tarrance Group also provided data on the answers to this question within political parties.
The responses illuminated some aspects of the prior polls, but the over all result was the same: Americans, overwhelmingly, are conservative. There were some differences between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives. Twenty-six percent of Americans call themselves "very conservative" on fiscal issues and forty-three percent consider themselves "somewhat conservative" on fiscal issues. One percent of America is moderate on fiscal issues -- that vital "center" of American politics! -- and three percent "don't know." Twenty-two percent of Americans are "somewhat liberal" on fiscal issues, and a piddling five percent of Americans are "very liberal" on fiscal issues. When the mushy "moderate" and "don't know" respondents are excluded, fiscal conservatives outnumber fiscal liberals by seventy-four percent to twenty-six percent.
Social conservatives are the clear majority of America too, although the numbers are not quite as overwhelming. Thirty-four percent of America, more than one person in three, is "very conservative" on social issues and nineteen percent are "somewhat conservative" on social issues. One percent is moderate on social issues - again, that vital "center" of American politics! - and seven percent "don't know." Twenty percent are "somewhat liberal" on social issues and nineteen percent are "very liberal" on social issues. When the mushy "don't know" and moderates are taken out, social conservatives outnumber social liberals fifty-nine percent to forty-one percent."
Needless to say how frustrating it is to see the unbelievably counter-intuitive election results we've just experienced, wherein Congress, and most notably the Presidency has been seized by dangerous leftist radicals who are dismantling our Constitution, and replacing it with a nascent fascism right before our eyes, with no ready explanations aside from the voter fraud anyone with a clue has come to expect.
The answer I think lies in the fact that conservatives vote conservatively. That is they are not prone to vote third parties but rather with their establishment roots, and that means the GOP which is ostensibly the conservative party. Problem is, the party for several reasons but mostly through the fault of its leadership refuses to field conservative candidates, thus the base says 'fuck it', I'm not voting for that asshole', while the mushy ruminants in the big tent saunter off and vote for Obama so that they may congratulate themselves on their open mindedness, and assuage their race guilt. Meanwhile conservative democrats (and there are some as the polling attests) in their turn say 'fuck it, why should I vote for a faux Democrat, when I can vote for the real thing?
The solution for the GOP? Try to field true conservatives for a change. The solution for conservatives? Vote, and vote for a true conservative regardless of party affiliation
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