Thursday, January 12, 2012

Gallup: Conservatives Remain Largest Ideological Group in U.S.

How a center-right country elected one of the most radical leftists imaginable to the office of president remains one of the great mysteries of science.

Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives...

...The percentage of Americans calling themselves "moderate" has gradually diminished in the U.S. since it was 43% in 1992. That is the year Gallup started routinely measuring ideology with the current question. It fell to 39% in 2002 and has been 35% since 2010. At the same time, the country became more politically polarized, with the percentages of Americans calling themselves either "conservative" or "liberal" each increasing.

This chart helpfully breaks out those liberals into their various sub-segments.

No. No, I didn't. I never made any modifications to the chart.

Not that you know of.


2 comments:

Robert said...

it's called fast food nation stupidity and leftist perversion of our society. in a society uninfected by leftists, unterrorized by the state, that valued our Founding, this Scumbag Abortion Ahole Marxist Freak Dickhead would never have been given the time of day.

just goes to show you how far gone the Statists have us now. how close to the PONR that they have put us.

and I'm f.cking pissed, can ya tell?

The_Bad said...

"How a center-right country elected one of the most radical leftists imaginable to the office of president remains one of the great mysteries of science."

No mystery, Doug. When an accomplice media props up said radical leftist as a centrist candidate promising to change the politics of old - and make no mistake that America was sick of listening to liberals bitch endlessly about Bush et al - and the opposition candidate is a squishy, mush-mouthed Beltway lifer, it is quite easy to see how Barry won his office.

The real problem here is how to fix the problem. What can we possibly do to fix the media? If the media did the job it was supposed to do in the last election, we would be complaining about how much President McCain sucks.