In Spite Of Conservative Ranters, Broad Majority Of Americans Support "Liberal Ideas"

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Just because these yahoos say they represent "mainstream" values doesn't mean anyone has to believe them. Americans just need to know the facts, and frame the subject accordingly.

A new poll from CNN helps. It gives more strong evidence that the "liberal" ideas mocked by conservatives are, in fact, mainstream views. In issue after issue, Americans are siding with Pelosi, Obama, Feinstein and the rest, and not George W. Bush or his conservative Congressional counterparts.

that most Democratic leaders do not fall for the propaganda that the citizens don't want "crazy left, liberal ideas".
Liberal values ARE mainstream values.
RJK Jr. has mentioned on his radio show many times that when he goes around the country giving speeches, that
many supposedly "conservative" people are surprised to find out that liberal values are very much their own values -- they just didn't know what the definition was because it had been framed for them by the corporate media and right-wing hate radio.

Question\ % Approve\ % Disapprove\ % No opinion

Allowing the government to negotiate
with drug companies to attempt to
lower the price of prescription drugs
for some senior citizens 87% 12% 1%

Raising the minimum wage 85% 14% 1%

Cutting interest rates on federal loans
to college students 84% 15% 1%

Creating an independent panel to oversee
ethics in Congress 79% 19% 2%

Making significant changes
in U.S. policy in Iraq 77% 20% 3%

Reducing the amount of influence lobbyists
have in congressional decisions 75% 21% 4%

Implementing all of the anti-terrorism
recommendations made by the
9/11 Commission 64% 26% 10%

Maintaining the current Social Security
system to prevent the creation of
private investment accounts 63% 32% 6%

Funding embryonic stem cell research 62% 32% 6%

the key is to have the American majority REALIZE its the American majority.

I think I'll watch for results of another poll before I consider that gospel. And an even 49% split in favor of/opposed to reducing some federal tax breaks for oil companies?

All the rest of the poll looks like they surveyed the America I used to know. I sure hope to see more of that.

Conservatives and neocons hate "Liberal Ideas" because THEY believe the greater good is ONLY for THEM and NOT OTHERS.

If the MSM and the conservative ranters frame these as "liberal," its less likely that Congressional Democrats will fight for them, or that the American people will demand them.

That doesn't make it true at all.