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doxydad

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Fri Jun 13, 2014, 08:19 AM Jun 2014

Conservatives Are So Conservative They Think the Congressional GOP Are Moderate Squishes

Eric Cantor lost because hard-core voters think his kind keep selling out to Obama. The idea is insane as they are.

Among the 3,672 reasons you’ve read and heard for David Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor, here’s one you haven’t seen. This explanation doesn’t have anything to do with Cantor palling around with lobbyists, or with Laura Ingraham’s one-liners. It’s about ideology, and it’s pretty straightforward: Self-identified conservatives in 2014 are really conservative, and they increasingly think that Republicans in Congress—Republicans in Congress, mind you—are a bunch of namby-pambies.

You want numbers? I got numbers. Last month, centrist Democratic group Third Way, released a study called “The State of the Center.” The report is not just another poll. It’s a really comprehensive and unique piece of work that yields more illuminating results than any poll. It has many elements, but here’s the part of interest to us. The group asked 1,500 Americans to identify themselves on an ideological scale of 1 to 9, 1 being the most liberal and 9 being the most conservative. Then these respondents were asked where they would place Democrats in Congress, Republicans in Congress, Barack Obama, and their ideal president. The answers are fascinating and jaw-dropping in that way that these kinds of findings about conservatives are, alas, no longer jaw-dropping.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/13/conservatives-are-so-conservative-they-think-the-congressional-gop-are-moderate-squishes.html
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Conservatives Are So Conservative They Think the Congressional GOP Are Moderate Squishes (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
The article is built on a very weak premise. DetlefK Jun 2014 #1

DetlefK

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1. The article is built on a very weak premise.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:02 AM
Jun 2014

On a 1-to-9 liberal-to-conservative scale, conservatives used to rate republican congressmen at 5.81. Now it's 5.76.

THE SKIES ARE FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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