Conservative Nation -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online — Despite the scene in Washington, Gallup reports: Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. ...

New Gallup Poll Finds 40% of America Conservative– 20% Liberal
Gateway Pundit — A new poll released by Gallup found 40% of Americans consider themselves conservative. Only 20% of Americans consider themselves far left liberals like Barack Obama. Gallup reported: Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with ...

Fox News' Glenn Beck strikes ratings gold
USS Neverdock — Why? Because people like to hear about things they've never heard before, especially if it's scandalous. The more people learn about the Van Joneses and ACORN type scandals from Fox News and don't hear it from the left wing media, the more curious they are about Fox. And the more they watch the more they like what they see. It's also a fact that Fox is more representative of the country. "PRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that ...

Conservatives Remain Top Ideological Group
The Political Carnival — ... Gallup: "Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009... Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group." ...

Conservatives Outnumber Liberals 2-1
JammieWearingFool — Nothing like ruining the day for liberals so early on a Monday morning. Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal . This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. The 2009 data are based on 16 separate Gallup surveys conducted from January through September, encompassing more than 5,000 national ...

Conservatives Remain Top Ideological Group
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Gallup: "Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009... Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group." ...

Conservatives Top Liberals, Moderates as Top Ideological Group
Confederate Yankee — Conservatives Top Liberals, Moderates as Top Ideological Group So sayeth Gallup : Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. Let's keep those percentages in mind the next time we see a heavily-slanted poll that significantly under-samples Republicans ...

Barcepundit (English edition) — OBAMA, the conservatives' best friend: according to Gallup, he's "manufacturing" them at full speed.

Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group
RedState: Conservative News and Community — How can this be? Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. I hope the RNC, GOP, NRSC, NRCC, etc. are paying attention to this. As I have noted repeatedly, data from the 2008 exit polling showed that more ...

Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group
RedState — How can this be? Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. I hope the RNC, GOP, NRSC, NRCC, etc. are paying attention to this. As I have noted repeatedly, data from the 2008 exit polling showed that more ...

Major Shift in Political Winds in USA
GayPatriot — Why would this be happening?  Ya think maybe the Era of “hopeandchange” is wearing thin? GALLUP.com:  Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. ...

Americans Take a Turn to the Right, Poll Shows
WSJ.com: Washington Wire — ... Among the striking findings in a new Gallup Poll on Americans’ shifting political attitudes is their growing anti-labor feeling. The percentage of Americans saying they would like to see unions have less influence in the country spiked to a record-high 42% in August 2009, compared with 32% a year earlier. ...

"Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group."
Althouse — Polls Gallup. 40% of Americans say they are "conservative."  In second place: moderate — 36%. "Liberal" comes in at 20%. On particular issues: Perceptions that there is too much government regulation of business and industry jumped from 38% in September 2008 to 45% in September 2009. The percentage of Americans saying they would like to see labor unions have less influence in the country rose from 32% in August 2008 to a record-high 42% in August 2009. Public support for keeping the laws governing the sale of firearms the same or ...

poll dancing
Knowledge is Power — Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. recalcitrant gun-clingers!

BlogTalk: The Conservative Label
The Caucus — Conservative bloggers have latched on to a recent Gallup Poll showing that 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, while 36 percent call themselves moderate and 20 percent liberals. The shift over time would appear to be caused by an increase in the number of people who consider themselves conservative, rather than independent, Gallup explains. But even though a lot of conservatives online have been happily sharing the results, there are caveats — as there are with any poll, including the difference between how people identify themselves in a ...

Remainders: Turf
Ben Smith's Blog — Here comes the option. H1N1 poses political risks too. Self-identified conservatives remain numerous. Krugman thinks health care is working. Wolff thinks Ailes is spooked. Newspaper circs plunge, again. The Awl illustrates. The Podesta family draws more unwelcome attention. Orszag mixes it up with Fred Hiatt. The head of the National Organization for Women rebukes Obama. Elizabeth ...

New York’s 23rd District a Bellwether Campaign
Gates of Vienna — ... Meanwhile, Governor Pawlenty has endorsed the Conservative candidate, Hoffman. This news comes just as Gallup announces that conservatives are maintaining their edge in the polls: ...

Gallup: More Americans identify as conservative than any other label
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Good news , but a tad underwhelming when you look at the numbers. Right now it breaks out at 40/37/20 among conservatives, moderates, and liberals, respectively. Between 2006 and 2008, when the left was routing us at the polls, it was roughly … 37/37/22, a testament to how toxic progressives’ brand is even at the best of times. In fact, between the second and third quarters of this year, conservatives actually lost a point while moderates gained two. Not sure what explains that, although as The One moves further left, crazy wingnut ideas like “we shouldn’t create a new federal ...

Poll: More Americans Identify Themselves As Conservative
Flopping Aces — Can anyone really be surprised? Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. ...

The Right, Resurgent
Power Line — ... The Gallup Poll finds that conservatism, more than ever, is America's leading ideology. Actually, Gallup's headline--Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group--understates the case. Conservatives aren't "maintaining," they're surging, as this Gallup graphic reveals: ...

Re: Water-Carrying -- By: Stephen Spruiell
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Bottom line: Forget about Ailes and his old GOP ties. It's not in Fox's interest to act as a mouthpiece for the GOP. Conservatives have grown increasingly disenchanted with the party that's supposed to represent them. Today, we learn that conservatives outnumber moderates and liberals, yet the GOP's approval ratings are ...

links for 2009-10-26
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: rudy_giuliani andrew_cuomo) Gallup Poll: Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first ...

Wake Up GOP
Red Maryland — ... PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup ...

Links for 2009-10-26 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Gallup Poll: Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. Andy Cuomo warns Rudy Giuliani that he is running for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has secretly ...

More Americans Identify as Conservative than Republican
GayPatriot — ... the latest Gallup poll showing conservatives maintaining their edge as the top ideological group.  Yesterday morning, while in Santa Barbara, I chanced on that very poll ...

Conservatives Outnumber Liberals 2 to 1
Blogs For Victory — Doesn’t this just cut you liberals to the quick? Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. Poor, little liberals - you managed to sucker the moderates in to voting for Obama, but now the mask is off and ...

Conservatives Stand Athwart History, Yelling Faster, Pussycat, Faster!
Hit & Run — ... The data that goes into this comes from 16 national polls conducted between January and September 2009. Findings indicate that the country is getting more conservative across a wide array of issues, including a sense the government is regulating business too much, that global warming is exaggerated, and (boo!) that the government should promote "traditional values" rather than be neutral. More here. Via Drudge. This data is broadly consistent with the ...

Americans Regretting the CHANGE?
blonde sagacity — ... "Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group." (View Poll) ...

A Good Time to Be a Conservative in the Republican Party
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Gallup Poll October 26, 2009 Yes! The GOP over the remaining three years of the Obama Presidency will be unapologetically conservative. And next week, in real balloting, conservative Republicans are likely to win in Virginia, a ...

Kristol clear
Political Animal — ... Gingrich, media personalities like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and activists at town halls and tea parties. Some will lament this -- but over the past year, as those voices have dominated, conservatism has done pretty well in the body politic, and Republicans have narrowed the gap with Democrats in test ballots. And to think, Time magazine and the New York Times let a brilliant political visionary like Kristol go. It's hard to imagine. To support his argument, Kristol relies on a Gallup poll released yesterday showing a 40% plurality of Americans consider themselves ...

Kristol on the GOP in 2012
Weekly Standard Blog — After noting the new Gallup poll showing conservative self-ID at a high-water mark, the boss writes in the Washington Post: The implications of this for the Republican Party over the remaining three years of the Obama presidency are clear: The GOP is going to be pretty unapologetically conservative. There aren't going to be a lot of moderate Republican victories in intra-party skirmishes. And -- with the caveat that the political world can, of course, change quickly -- there will be a conservative Republican presidential ...

GOP: Get a Clue! [Reader Post]
Flopping Aces — ... PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. ...

The Problem with Dede, Newt, and NY-23
Daily Pundit — ... The left is also interested, because what they really fear is a sharp-edged, clear-cut opposition conservative oriented party in a nation in which conservatives have been the majority for ...

Libertarianism Missing Its Moment?
Booker Rising — ... surveyed with libertarian-leaning views from last year, despite the clear increase in anti-government rhetoric from the Tea Party movement, Glenn Beck, and the talking heads at Fox News. What gives? One possibility is that the real surge took place in the second Bush Administration as libertarians jumped from 17 to 23 percent of those surveyed. The recent Tea Party movement doesn't reflect new libertarians, just the existing libertarians free to speak out now that Bush is gone. Or...maybe Gallup picks up on another trend? ...

London Telegraph: Obama's Failed to Defeat Conservatism in U.S.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... This week’s striking Gallup poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004. ...

Chart Of The Day
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Good news, but a tad underwhelming when you look at the numbers. Right now it breaks out at 40/37/20 among conservatives, moderates, and liberals, respectively. Between 2006 and 2008, when the left was routing us at the polls, it was roughly … 37/37/22, a testament to how toxic progressives’ brand is even at the best of times. ...

The Hope Peddler: Obama's Exploitation
RealClearPolitics - Homepage — RECOMMENDED ARTICLES October 26, 2009 Conservatives Keep Edge as Top Ideological Group Lydia Saad, Gallup PRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as... ...

Obama's Blue Tide in Virginia: Aberration or Trend?
Politics Daily — ... Indeed, a new poll out by Gallup this week has taken much of the air out of the re-alignment argument, finding that conservatism in America, both as a label and on the issues, has seen a strong resurgence. This would seem to refute the argument that America is heading in a more liberal direction. However, at the same time, attitudes toward the Republican Party have ...

More Conservatives, But No Republicans
Pajamas Media — ... the Democrats. Yet while our political parties increasingly divide themselves along ideological lines, those line are not always straight. Indeed, according to the latest Gallup poll, more than one in five (22 percent) Democrats describe themselves as conservative. This poll, which found that conservatives remain the largest ideological group in America, is welcome news to those of us who believe America is a center-right nation, but sobering to those of us who identify with the GOP. According to Gallup : Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as ...

Americans moving right, but not into arms of GOP
GayPatriot — ... This poll which found that conservatives remain the largest ideological group is America, while welcome to those of us who believe America is a center-right nation, is sobering to those of us who identify with the GOP. According to Gallup:< ...

NY-23: Bookerista Perspectives
Booker Rising — ... "See a pattern here? What both [New York Times columnist Frank] Rich and [White House adviser Valerie] Jarrett are doing is trying to paint Hoffman and conservatives as extreme. This to me reeks of a Plan B. Since they pretty much know that Hoffman may defeat Owens on Tuesday, they have decided to Palinize him early and paint him as a right wing extremist. This is a foolish tactic. Once again Gallup has shown that more Americans identify themselves as conservative. More independents are moving towards the conservative position on abortion, guns, unions, size of ...

As goes Maine. . .
GayPatriot — ... also found that attitudes toward gay marriage “have stayed about the same since 2008.”  There may  not be a movement toward state-recognized same-sex marriage, but there certainly isn’t a return to the overwhelming opposition we saw in the 1990s. ...

Election Day primer — and pushback against Democrat-media spin
Michelle Malkin — Joshua Culling at the National Taxpayers Union has a handy primer on tomorrow’s gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, plus overviews of state ballot initiatives across the country. Read and bookmark here . For NY-23, check 73wire , The Other McCain , Riehl World View , and TCOT Report. Mark Blumenthal at Pollster.com has analysis on NY-23 polls and concludes :…my experience conducting surveys for political campaigns, especially in Congressional districts in non-presidential year races, taught me the value of the vote history available on registered voter lists. More often than not, surveys I helped conduct based on such ...

Laughable: 'Countdown' Accuses Palin of Sexism
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — The willingness of MSNBC on-air commentators to engage in political hackery for the Democratic Party knows no boundaries - as indicated by the latest charged hurled at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.  Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," who once called conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, ...

Thirteen Straw Polls in a Row for Marco Rubio
VoteRubio2010 — ... Conservatives are rallying around Marco Rubio in huge numbers. That, combined with the fact that Independents are moving towards the Right is a positive for Rubio and conservatism. ...

America Is Coming to a Crossroads
Gates of Vienna — Several converging essays for your consideration. The first concerns the bills for the amazing spending spree this administration has crammed down our throats, even as we gagged in protest: President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 - and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning. The president’s plan, which the officials said was under discussion before this month’s Democratic election setbacks, represents both a practical and a political calculation by this White ...

CNN's 'Cross-Section' of America Contains No Palin Supporters
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — CNN's Rick Sanchez hosted a forum of 'average joes' yesterday in a sort of focus group on Sarah Palin. CNN did not feel, however, that it needed to invite any Palin supporters. Despite claims that the group accurately represented American opinion, its responses demonstrated a total disconnect from actual public sentiment. Sanchez, shown right in a file photo, asked the group to inform viewers of their political and party affiliations, concluding that there was "a pretty good cross-section" of Americans participating. He then asked about Palin. None of the viewers said they would vote for her in a presidential run, and none said they plan on purchasing her ...

Conservatives on Thanksgiving: Thanks for Our Freedom and Our Founders
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Several people around the MRC loved the Thanksgiving message of Amanda Reinecker at the Heritage Foundation's myHeritage.org website: America was founded upon sound conservative principles grounded firmly in human nature and not in radical idealism. And today, we see that these principles, though under attack from the Left, are still very much alive. As Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding explained in 2003, Thanksgiving maintains the tradition of the American Founding and affirms that "while we are committed to upholding religious liberty, we remain one nation under God." So, despite these tough times, ...