The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on February 05, 2010, 03:14:50 PM
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FQ maintains that BO won because because Republicans try to be "TO CONSERVATIVE" while the population is more "MIDDLE OF THE ROAD" .
WRONG
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2010/politically_speaking_populist_isn_t_popular_but_conservative_is
If you’re a politician, don’t call yourself a populist. And liberal isn’t much better.
Populist is the least popular of five common political labels, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters. It’s more fashionable to be viewed as a conservative, less so to be called a progressive, the label adopted by many liberals.
Forty percent (40%) of U.S. voters view being described politically as a conservative as a positive description. That’s up eight points from last September and even up three from just after the November 2008 election. Sixteen percent (16%) say conservative is a negative description, and 43% put it somewhere in between negative and positive.
In distant second place in terms of popularity is the political description progressive. Twenty-two percent (22%) now view that as a positive description, but that’s a 10-point drop from September and down 18 points from November 2008. For 35%, progressive is a political negative, and 36% place it somewhere in between.
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Re: FQ is wrong again - well, there is earth-shaking news. Not!! ;D
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Re: FQ is wrong again - well, there is earth-shaking news. Not!! ;D
Path, it's only news when he's right!! ;D
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Re: FQ is wrong again - well, there is earth-shaking news. Not!! ;D
Path, it's only news when he's right!! ;D
But now I have NUMBERS to use against him. :o
FQ is a good guy on all the non political threads though. He truly IS a victim of his environment .
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But now I have NUMBERS to use against him. :o
FQ is a good guy on all the non political threads though. He truly IS a victim of his environment .
Quaker: http://puppetgallery.com/gallery/2347_HarpSeal.jpg
;D ;D
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, lets beat on the Quaker (bigots! ;D). Thing is this, I have to ask what the meaning of conservative is. ;D ;D ;D (FQ will now stop ROFL). Seriously, how did respondents interpret "conservative"? Did they take it to mean "prudent, responsible, traditional and cautious" or did they assign the neo-con or religious right agenda? This is not an idle question as I think it is at the heart of the GOP's problem. They see an America that doesn't trust starry eyed liberals. They then take that to mean that we want Rumsfeld's FP and Jerry Falwell's social policy. They are as wrong as the Dems who thought they got voted into power in '06 because people actually liked Pelosi,rather than just being tired of W. Again, the mountain ain't mov'in . The parties need to either A, try to educate people so it does move,or B, tell the extremists to kiss off in which case we will have elections with RINOs on one side and Blue Dogs on the other.
FQ13 who could think of worse things for this country.
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Good point FQ, I did not see the poll its self so I will only say that while I HOPE that they took it as "prudent, responsible, traditional and cautious" based on the amount of sense shown by "average" voters I suspect they are veering spitefully toward the whole "Theocracy" thing.
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I fond the "again" to be rather redundant