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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (67640)	6/30/2009 7:19:03 PM
From: mph	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224713

I doubt there was evidence to support the disparate impact claim other than what occurred on that one test. I still need to study the opinion for more details. But I doubt the net effect is as you describe it.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (67640)	7/1/2009 8:17:08 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224713

Congratulations on getting to say Senator Al Franken, Kenny.....It's fairly fitting the way things are going to seat one more clown in that august body. Your guys have it all and the more of your sides schemes get implemented the sooner the country reaches the "wtf" tipping point of pure disgust. Card check, Iranian style media control with the "Fairness Doctrine", and limp voter registration practices to allow for illegals to vote will not set well with the general public. The sooner it becomes clear what you guys are up to...the better. It's not for nothing that there is more serious talk of secession now. We need Texas....Vermont can go....;>)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (67640)	7/1/2009 8:56:12 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224713

ken...here is another gallop poll for your enjoyment. June 30, 2009 More Americans See Democratic Party as “Too Liberal” More believe Democratic Party’s, rather than Republican Party’s, views are about right by Jeffrey M. Jones gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ -- A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party's losses in that year's midterm elections. Most major demographic and attitudinal subgroups show at least a slight uptick since 2008 in perceptions that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The increasing perception of the Democrats as too far left comes as President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have expanded the government's role in the economy to address the economic problems facing the country. Additionally, the government is working toward major healthcare reform legislation and strengthening environmental regulations. Notably, there has been no change over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say the Republican Party is "too conservative," though the 43% who say the party leans too far to the right matches the historical high mark set last year. As a result, now slightly more Americans perceive the Democratic Party as being too liberal (46%) than view the GOP as being too conservative (43%). But the Democratic Party still compares favorably to the Republican Party from the standpoint that more Americans say the Democrats' ideology is "about right" (42%) than say this about the Republicans' ideology (34%). Political independents' perceptions of the two major parties' ideological orientation are important since both parties need to appeal to the political center in order to win elections. (The vast majority of partisan identifiers predictably view their chosen party's views as being about right and the other party's as being too extreme.) Currently, independents are more likely to view both parties as being too extreme in either direction than to believe they are about right. But more independents say the Democratic Party (38%) than the Republican Party (25%) is about right. Independents are a little more likely to say the Republican Party is too conservative than to say the Democratic Party is too liberal, in a slight departure from the results among all Americans. Since last year, there have been declining perceptions among independents that each party is about right in its ideological orientation -- from 31% to 25% for the Republican Party and from 43% to 38% for the Democratic Party. Most of the decline in regard to the Democratic Party has been associated with in an increase in seeing the party as "too liberal." Implications The Democratic Party continues to hold the upper hand over the Republican Party in the current U.S. political environment by a variety of measures, including party identification and party favorable ratings. However, compared to last year, Americans are significantly more likely to see the Democratic Party as too liberal, and as a result, they are somewhat more likely to view the party as being too far left than to perceive the Republican Party as too far right. That may expose a bit of a vulnerability for the Democratic Party, and if perceptions of the Democratic Party as being too liberal continue to grow, the GOP may be able to win back some of the support it has lost in recent years. But that may be possible only if the Republicans are at the same time able to convince the public that they are not too far to the political right. Survey Methods Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,011 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted June 14-17, 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only). In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. Click below for more on these topics: