the past 3 days i've listened to what our "president" has said concerning the debt....he mentions the gop or republicans and never uses the democrat lable...it's always "his party" or he throws out the "well if you're progressive" or "we as progressives" or "if you believe in progress ideals"....all as if every American is "progressive"....someone should tell him that MOST of us Americans are happy with the way the founders crafted our Constitution and hold it sacred and he and his progressive nazis can take a flying leap off the cliff....go bark up a different tree obowser....ruff ruff
Americans unsure of 'progressive' label
Published: July 12, 2010 at 5:40 PM
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WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Americans are unsure of what the political label "progressive" actually means, and whether it does or does not describe their own views, a poll indicates.
Large parts of America's liberal-moderate-conservative public are unsure what the term means, although liberals are more likely to embrace than reject the label by a margin of 26 percent to 17 percent, while conservatives are more likely to reject than embrace it, 48 percent to 7 percent, a USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday says.
Many high-profile politicians and political groups have begun using "progressive" as a substitute for "liberal" to avoid being pigeonholed, Gallup said.
Forty-five percent of Americans who identify with the progressive label separately describe their political views as either very liberal or liberal, the poll showed.
However, a third of progressives call themselves moderate and nearly a quarter define themselves as conservative, showing Americans' definitions of the term vary widely, the poll indicated.
The telephone poll was conducted June 11-13 with a random sample of 1,014 adults, with a maximum margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, Gallup said.
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