According to Gallup, self-professed conservatives now outnumber self-professed liberals in the United States, 42 percent to 21 percent, according to a poll published Monday. Another 37 percent chose to take the coward’s way out, describing themselves as limp-wristed “moderates.” The percentages are based on Gallup's daily tracking polls conducted from June 1 to August 31 of this year. If this is in fact the case, then how is it that we now find ourselves in such a miss? Did we all suffer from some simultaneous and momentary lapse of reason? How did we allow things to get so out of control, as well as manage to elect Barry?
The polls show that there has been a slight increase in the percentage of conservatives from the last time Gallup reported these numbers. On August 1, Gallup said that in its polling during the first half of 2011, 41 percent of respondents described themselves as conservatives, 21 percent described themselves as liberals, and 36 percent described themselves as wishy-washy moderates. Over the past two decades, according to Gallup, the percentage of Americans describing themselves as conservative has gradually increased, rising from 36 percent who said they were conservative in 1992.
The percentage who described themselves as liberal rose from 17 percent in 1992 to a high of 22 percent in 2007 and 2008. Since then, the percentage saying they were liberal has held steady at 21 percent. So we, the 42 percent, have somehow managed to allow the 21 percent to run the show. And yet we’re the ones being accused of having driven things into the ditch. Actually where we went so badly astray was in believing the Democrats, for whom many of us must have voted, when they told us one thing and then promptly went off to Washington and did something altogether different. That is a mistake can no longer afford to make.
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