While November is still a long way out this new Gallop poll shows why there should be some optimism on the Republican side of the aisle to win many seats:
In the past two years, Americans have become increasingly likely to describe the Democratic Party’s views as “too liberal” (49%), and less likely to say its views are “about right” (38%). Americans’ views of the Republican Party, on the other hand, have moderated slightly, with a dip in the percentage saying the GOP is too conservative from 43% last year to 40% today, and an increase in the percentage saying it is about right, from 34% to 41%.
The recent increase in perceptions of the Democratic Party as too liberal could be a response to the expansion in government spending since President Barack Obama took office, most notably regarding the economic stimulus and healthcare legislation.
The 49% of Americans who now believe the Democratic Party’s views are too liberal is one percentage point below the 50% Gallup measured after the 1994 elections, the all-time high in the trend question first asked in 1992.
Even worse for the Democrats is the Independents number. 33% think the Democrat ideology is just about right with 52% thinking not so much. That’s a 10 point drop from the 2008 election.
Obama and Democratic leadership have already hinted that they want to argue in the midterms that Republicans are the real extremists. That argument would have worked, according to Gallup’s data, until Democrats started pushing ObamaCare through Congress. At that point, a plurality of voters thought the GOP was too conservative as opposed to “about right,” 43/34. That has shifted to 40/41, while Democrats have gone from a “too liberal/about right” split of 46/42 to 49/38 in the same period. They’re not going to win a debate over extremism, not while rolling up debt like a college freshman with his first Visa card.
And who in their right mind believes the Obama Democrats will stop spending our tax dollars as they continue to take more and more money from our pockets?
Hell, Cap and Trade is still on the horizon.
Granted, take this for what it’s worth seeing as how this is a poll of adults, not likely voters…but just one more indicator to remain optimistic that we can somehow, someway, stop the every growing expansion of government.
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33% think the Democrat ideology is just right….hmmmm…..any correlation of that number to the amount of people on government handouts?
They are WAY too liberal… and America won’t forget who dragged them so far to the left, either
This is an interesting poll. I think we should start calling them fascists instead of liberal. They are not liberal in the true sense. Not even in the European sense. Liberals are for smaller government. They are for all intrusive government. I like this poll better – It asks “How Have Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid And President Obama Handled The Economy?” and a full 71% say not so good or terribly. http://www.usofearth.com/polls/?p=37
America is waking up to these fakers and with the economy collapsing they will wake up faster and faster.
What get’s me ROTFLMAO is that 10% who think that the Democrats are “too conservative”, and that group gained 2% since 2008. I’m sure we all have a pretty good idea what group this represents.