60% of U.S. Is Conservative, Year After Year

From "The Biggest Missing Story in Politics", Bruce Walker, American Thinker, 8-25-08, at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_biggest_missing_story_in_p.html

The Battleground Poll, the most respected and thorough of all public opinion polls, released its latest results on August 20th.

Walker says, "I always zip past the first 15 pages and go straight to Question D3, which... proclaims the biggest missing story in American politics. It is the only story, in the long run, that really matters."

What is he talking about? Americans respond more consistently to this question than any other question in those polls.

"They may change their opinions dramatically about Iraq or President Bush or drilling for oil, but not their answer to Question D3."

The Battleground Poll is different. It is bipartisan..No other polling organization asks the same questions year after year, none that reveal the internals of their poll results so completely, and none ask anything like Question D3 in every survey.

What is Question D3 and what were the results to it in the August 20, 2008 Battleground Poll? It is this: "When thinking about politics and government, do you consider yourself to be:

Very conservative

Somewhat conservative

MODERATE

Somewhat liberal

Very liberal

UNSURE/REFUSED"

In August 2008, Americans answered this way:

Very Conservative - 20%

Somewhat Conservative - 40%

MODERATE - 2%

Somewhat Liberal - 27%

Very Liberal - 9%

This is astounding. For decades the mostly-liberal media and academia have assumed - or alleged - that the country is about 40% conservative, 20% moderate and 40% liberal. That would be a mostly-balanced electorate, with the large moderate minority deciding most elections. They have never admited or publicized that the country is, and has long been, conservative by a huge majority, consistently around 60%.

"Could these poll results come from people not understanding the categories in the Battleground Poll? No."

The question specifically provides an out to people who are not sure about their ideology; it provides an out to people who want to be considered "moderate." They overwhelmingly define themselves as "conservative."

This is a huge political story! But it is not "new." In the 13 Battleground Poll results over the last 6 years, here are the percentages of Americans who call themselves "conservative" since June 2002:

59% - 6/02

59% - 9/03

61% - 4/04

59% - 6/04

61% - 10/05

59% - 3/06

61% - 10/06

59% - 1/07

63% - 7/07

58% - 12/07

63% - 5/08

60^ - 8/08

The percentage of people defining themselves as "liberal" has always been puny - never over 38% in the last 13 polls.

If conservative presidential candidates simply got all the conservative votes...then conservative candidates would win a landslide bigger than Ronald Reagan in 1988. Have you ever wondered why liberals like Obama never call themselves liberals? Maybe their advisers have read the Battleground Poll internals.

Why then, do other polls show Americans so different from conservatives?

The short answer is that other polls are scrupulously constructed to hide the tsunami of conservative opinion in America...All of these polls showing Americans equally divided were crafted by people and ...groups intent upon presenting a false impression of how Americans felt...

Like everything that the Left does, from entertainment to higher education, the structure, the format and the revealed results of information is conformed to present an image in which conservatives and their values are as invisible as blacks in the Antebellum South. Even Leftists themserlves believe this false picture.

Reagan, for example, was not only not an extremist, but "comfortably in the middle of a huge American majority."

Conservatives are like those proverbial sailors becalmed off the coast of Brazil, dying of thirst...

When another ship passed and asked the...ship if its crew needed help, the urgent call was for fresh water. The passing ship replied "Let down your buckets into the sea. You are in the mouth of the Amazon River." Fresh water was everywhere around the dehydrated men; they just did not know it.

"Conservatives are not just a majority of Americans, but an overwhelming majority. As soon as they grasp this...government and politics in America will be transformed."

Bruce Walker is the author of Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie, and the recently published book, The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.