posted October 14, 2010 09:34 AM         

Last week, the big news out of polling country was Gallup's report on its 2010 likely voter profile. And the most delicious tidbit within the complicated demographic profile was that an astonishing 54% of all likely voters self-identify as conservative.

Predictably, of course, left-wing analysts and pundits all through the land are scrambling to explain this horribly anomalous result after a full ten years of ubiquitous trashing of the conservative label by the entire ruling class.

Sliming those who still believe in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence -- i.e., conservatives -- has certainly been around longer than ten years, as anyone old enough to remember what the ruling class did to Barry Goldwater and tried so hard to do to Ronald Reagan can attest. But over the last ten years, in its purely desperate attempt to save itself from the ash bin of history, the ruling class has gone all-out in every medium to shame and belittle the conservative brand.

So, with all this ubiquitous bashing of conservative Americans as racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, xenophobes, Bible-thumpers, woman-haters -- oh, for crying out loud! This list could go on to lingual infinity. The end result -- 54% of likely voters willing to come out proudly as the dreaded, societally despised conservatives --is enough to cause an epic collective dash for the barf bags among the entire elitist, liberal army of professional agitators.

Once these poor, befuddled elitists regurgitated enough to clear their little heads, they started scrambling to explain how on earth this horrifying result could have emerged from all their years of trying so hard to rid the nation of the scourge of American exceptionalism and the wide-held belief in limited, accountable government. The only explanation they can come up with is the old one about populist (i.e., the stupid little people) anger always being aimed indiscriminately (ignorantly) at those currently in power. Since liberals are in charge, the stupid majority bounces back to the conservative label like the proverbial pendulum swing, this storyline goes.

And this is the best they can come up with, folks.

What a bunch of addle-brained ninnies these liberals are.

Why must it always be we conservatives who have to explain the obvious?

So here's what really happened to the American electorate, and over the past two years, especially.

The vast majority of genuine Americans have -- for the past two years -- gotten a real, up-close-and-personal look at the other side of the radical coin.

Socialist radicals -- Obama, Pelosi, and Reid -- have led the entire country through the economic ditch and into a raging river, headed straight for a Niagara-scale waterfall that ends with an inevitable crash into bankruptcy and utter ruin. Propping up one liberal dream scheme after another, rushing to the aid of morally bankrupt union bosses, taking over American companies, and shackling business with mountains of new regulations, the left-wing radicals have used our own money to run us into the ground.

That's part of the conservative growth-spurt story: seeing is believing. Apparently, it was never enough for Americans to glimpse the rotten economies of their sister-states across the big pond in western Europe. They had to see Democratic socialism wreak havoc here on our own shores to really understand our own left-wing radicals.

The other part of this story is the utter disregard for the U.S. Constitution, for which this leftist-radical administration and Congress have become well-known.

When a brave citizen in California had the temerity to ask Rep. Pete Stark how he could justify -- within a Constitutional framework -- passage of the ObamaCare mandate, this off-the-rails left-wing radical told her plainly that "the federal government can do most anything in this country." Americans saw that tyranny-packed statement coming from the mouth of a leftist radical congressman and woke up in the scant time it took for the bucket of ice-cold water to hit their faces. Anything? Anything? The federal government can do anything it wants?

We don't need no stinkin' Constitution! We make up the rules as we go along.

Can we get away with it? Yes, we can!!

Now, that's scary leftist-radical in a nutshell, and it doesn't take an army of media folks to pin the tail on its behind for the people to see that donkey for what it really is. A nanny-state tyranny in the making. Without rules. Without any regard for the Constitution or the law.

Once Americans saw the left-wing radicals in charge, the majority of the electorate drew the simple conclusion that socialist radicals are far more dangerous to life, liberty, and the unencumbered pursuit of happiness than any Bible-toting, pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-gun-rights, pro-right-to-work, pro-low-taxation, power-eschewing soccer mom or business-clad dad. Americans are beginning to realize in record numbers that the left-wing radicals -- despite their American veneer -- are foreigners to the ideals of liberty and colorblind justice, which are deeply embedded in our national psyche.

More and more, the people are awakening to the reality that conservative radicals are just us. Right-wing radicals are no more scary than the stalwart small business owner next door. No more scary than the mom who goes to church every week and builds more accountable government through her Tea Party phone bank.

The people came. The people saw.

And the left-wing radicals scared the woolies out of them.

Yes, the country is more polarized than it has been since the Civil War. The people are waking to the real threats posed by left-wing radicals. At the same time, they're beginning to understand that they've been propagandized to fear and hate conservative Americans on faulty premises. So we're mostly all radicals now, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which radical side of the coin genuine Americans prefer. Tea, anyone?

Despite years and years and years of a media empire working in lockstep with left-wing radicals, tirelessly attacking the conservative American image, the public is self-identifying as conservative more than at any other time in recent history. And the number of those calling themselves moderates is shrinking with wild-eyed urgency.

The moral of this story is as plain as the ears on President Obama's head.

This is America, stupid! And we don't want your economy-killing, free enterprise-hating, Constitution-spurning radicals bringing socialism to these shores.

posted October 14, 2010 12:07 PM         

yes reagan was a sweetie, wasn't he? he lowered the TOP tax rates and RAISED social security contributions (which apply mostly to the lower paid among us and not at all to anything over 100K/year)...lowered those taxes and raised spending, creating a large DEFICIT, and got away with it to the extent that cheney famously quoted "REAGAN proved that DEFICITS DON"T MATTER" -

except of course when they belong to the other party and you can make YOURS look like someone else's too!

once again we have that "likely voters" category...who decides who is likely to vote jwhop? you? because where i sit there is no way to tell who will vote or not, apart from the alcohol-ridden homeless.

posted October 14, 2010 12:24 PM         

Let me remind you katatonic.

After all the hyperventilating by leftists, by the Reverrrrrrrend Jackson, by the Reverrrrrrrend Sharpton...that blacks had not been allowed to vote in the 2000 election.....

NOT A SINGLE PERSON SHOWED UP AT A FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION INQUIRY TO FILE A COMPLAINT.

Just like other leftist hyperventilating, it was a hoax, a con and a fraud.

What was found btw was that the election commission of Broward County...a demoscat election commission had totally screwed up the election in their county.

We did learn some other things too.

Felons are a demoscat interest group...along with the dead, illegal aliens and those not registered to vote.

In the election of 2000, convicted felons...who were not eligible to vote...voted for Algore at an 87% clip.

posted October 14, 2010 01:12 PM         

i don't think much of al gore either, sweetie, and i don't think that two wrongs make a right.

posted October 14, 2010 09:29 PM         

Those who were registered to vote and wanted to vote...voted...period.

Those who were not registered to vote or tried to vote in the wrong precinct or filled out their absentee ballots incorrectly or failed to sign them...had their ballots thrown out in accordance with the voting laws of Florida.

None of that is a denial of the right to vote for those eligible to vote.

posted October 15, 2010 10:42 AM         

i would think the present prospects would be distasteful even to you, though you have already shown that you have NO powers of discernment in your endorsement of the eejot from delaware, and all the other goofball candidates your folks have come up with.

posted October 15, 2010 11:24 PM         

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well at least i am not PINING to go back ten years in time! that was an example of what things WERE like...katatonic

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Since Bush didn't "steal" the 2000 election and....since eligible voters were not prohibited from voting....THAT'S NOT AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THINGS WERE LIKE

Let me rephrase that.

posted October 19, 2010 01:21 PM         

seems some would like the nevada latino voters to think that because immigration reform hasn't happened yet they have been "betrayed" - but even the perp has to admit that sharon angle is no choice at all...

are the 26% of nevada's population that are identified as latino's likely voters or not? do they get included in these polls?

posted October 19, 2010 02:01 PM         

Statistics show a majority of latinos are against illegal immigration.

posted October 26, 2010 08:21 AM         

The latest Battleground Poll, the last before the midterm election, has just been released. It has good news for Republicans. By a margin of 48% to 42%, respondents favor Republican congressional candidates over Democrat congressional candidates. Even better, voters now view the two major parties differently: 50% of respondents view the Republican Party favorably, compared to 41% who view it unfavorably; 50% of respondents now view the Democrat Party unfavorably, compared to 42% who view it favorably. Better still, against a generic Republican candidate, President Obama now loses in 2012 by 48% to 42%.

I have been writing about the Battleground Poll for a long time. There are important reasons to take this poll very seriously. The poll is the joint product of a Democrat polling organization, Lake Research, and a Republican polling organization, The Tarrance Group. George Washington University conducts the poll, and anyone who sees a conservative bias in academia should have his head examined. The internal questions of the Battleground Poll are fully reported. This includes, critically, demographic questions so that we know the partisan breakdown of the respondents, and also their marital status, income, age, and religious affiliation. The Battleground Poll is also the most accurate poll in America in predicting election results.

Among the demographic data is a very important nugget of information: the ideological persuasion of respondents in Question D3. The answer to Question D3 is the single most constant response in these polls. In every single one of the last nineteen Battleground Polls over the last decade, about 60% of Americans describe themselves as "conservative," while about 35% of Americans describe themselves as liberal. The October 25, 2010 Battleground Poll is no different: 62% of Americans described themselves as "conservative," and only 35% described themselves as "liberal." Only 2% of Americans call themselves "moderate," and another 2% of Americans were unsure or refused to answer. This anemic response of ideological neutrality is completely consistent in all nineteen Battleground Polls.

Gloomy conservatives who comment on my articles propose reason to doubt this fabulous news. People, some conservatives seem to believe, really do not know what "conservative" means. This makes no sense: respondents are explicitly given the options in Question D3 of choosing "don't know / unsure" or "moderate," but almost no one ever chooses these safe options. Other pessimistic conservatives believe that Battleground Poll respondents are intimidated into choosing "conservative" because of Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. How silly! Nearly all the institutions of power in American life, from public schools to NPR, have been overrun by radical leftists, who portray conservatives as racists, homophobes, Nazis, or morons. Americans describe themselves as "conservative" despite the tremendous pressure to call oneself at least a "moderate."

The biggest reason for trusting that the overwhelming majority of Americans are conservative is the uncanny consistency of the answer to Question D3. Perhaps in one poll, the population sampled might have been confused, but in nineteen straight Battleground Polls over a decade? Statistical validation comes in consistency over time and over different random populations of the data provided. How much has the ideological data varied in last nineteen polls? The number of respondents who call themselves "conservative" has been as low as 58% and as high as 63%. The mean response -- adding all the "conservative" responses together and dividing that sum by nineteen -- provides an average percentage of Americans who call themselves conservative as 61.2%. The mid-range, another statistical averaging tool derived by adding the highest and lowest values and dividing by two, produces an average "conservative" response of 60.5%. Any method of statistical averaging produces the same conclusion: this datum, the sixty percent of Americans who call themselves "conservative," is a very solid number. What percentage of respondents called themselves "conservative" in the October 25, 2010 Battleground Poll? A whopping 62%.

What does this conservative majority mean? It means that Democrats reject the label of "liberal" and embrace "moderate." It means the left, who invariably tag all conservatives as "far-right-wing," "ultra-conservative," or some insulting term, indeed recognize the existence of ordinary conservatives who favor smaller government, lower taxes, states' rights, restoration of traditional moral values in schools and media, and the de-politicization of everyday life. There is a vast gulf between Stalinists who occupy the choke points of education, information, government, and entertainment in America and us, the huge conservative majority. This disconnect is so vast that there are two Americas: the ocean of conservatives and the small, delusional islands of leftists whose ignorance of America is so profound that they might as well be colonial governors from some European kingdom. It means that "Flyover Country" includes much more than those states called "Jesusland." Flyover Country is all of America, except for imperial enclaves in Washington, Manhattan, Hollywood, and those leftist monasteries called universities. Even Gallup concurs: conservatives outnumber liberals in every state of the union.

There is an inspirational story we should heed. A sailing ship, becalmed in the water and far from land, desperately hailed a passing vessel to send fresh water: the crew was dying of thirst. The other ship responded, "Drop down your buckets. You are in the mouth of the Amazon." Fear, isolation, hopelessness -- these are the only weapons of the left. Once we wake up and know that we are America, the battle is won. The 60% conservative majority is no illusion, no aberration, and no misunderstanding. Our imperial colonial rulers and their paid agents are as popular in America as British soldiers were in Ireland in 1900 or as Soviet troops were in 1980 in Poland. Dip down your buckets. We are in the mouth of the Amazon.

Bruce Walker is the author of a new book: Poor Lenin's Almanac: Perverse Leftists Proverbs for Modern Life.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/good_news_for_gop_and_great_ne.html