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2009-04-29 Home Front: Politix

Less than one in four identify as Republican

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-29 15:52|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I've always thought that these so called "neutral" companies, cross reference phone number addresses with voting district results to achieve the numbers their clients want.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-04-29 16:42|| 2009-04-29 16:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Less than one in four Republicans identify as fiscally conservative.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-29 17:04|| 2009-04-29 17:04|| Front Page Top

#3 WE'RE HIDING.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-29 18:10|| 2009-04-29 18:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Telephone polling is getting tough. This Republican doesn't answer the phone if he doesn't recognize the number and if you don't leave a message, it must not have been that important.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-04-29 18:22|| 2009-04-29 18:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Heard the same stuff after Carter won. Three years later he wasn't.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-04-29 18:38|| 2009-04-29 18:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Less than one in four Republicans identify as fiscally conservative.

Y'know, I find that to not only be a bit of a gross exaggeration and half-truth, but one that has been very useful to the Democrats' strategy.

Meanwhile, here's the deficit, both historical and projected, in graphical form, from Glenn Reynold's website; you'll notice he's not exactly Mr. Republican:

Kinda makes me wonder what happened between 2006 and 2007.

Posted by Thing From Communist Mountain 2009-04-29 18:40|| 2009-04-29 18:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Anyway, it kinda looks like a lot more than a dime's worth of difference to me. Maybe 1.4 trillion.

Posted by Thing From Communist Mountain 2009-04-29 18:42|| 2009-04-29 18:42|| Front Page Top

#8 And I was gonna say something really bad and sarcastic, but I changed my mind. But forgot to change the 'nick back.

Anyway, I'm not beginning to think that a lot of the heavy fiscal argument we've been getting in was counterproductive; I thought that back in 2004. I _know_ a lot of it's been unproductive.

If we hadn't raised such a damn fuss about the Bridge To Nowhere, and picked our battles more carefully, we might actually have a lower deficit now.

Instead we hammered away on earmarks which we thought were worth complaining about at the time, but now we REALLY have something to complain about.

Pretending that all Republicans were basically the same as Arlen Specter was a losing strategy even back when Specter was still pretending to be a Republican. NOW? We may not have winning strategies available to us, especially if it requires the Republicans to have power they don't before they can prove they're 'worthy' of us voting for them instead of the people who gave us the 1.8 trillion dollar deficit.

And as one great capitalist strategist once said, "The Best is the Enemy of the Good Enough."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-29 19:07|| 2009-04-29 19:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ONE PERSON'S VIEW----WHY I VOTED DEMOCRAT

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse.

I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.

I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves.They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as IT sees fit.

I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass that it is unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own."

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-29 19:25|| 2009-04-29 19:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Besoeker - That's great!

Posted by 3dc 2009-04-29 20:17|| 2009-04-29 20:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Besoeker:

A Liberal also believes they can pick up a turd by the clean end.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-29 20:20|| 2009-04-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#12 "A Liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own."

"A Liberal also believes they can pick up a turd by the clean end."

Gawd, I love Rantburg! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-29 20:32|| 2009-04-29 20:32|| Front Page Top

#13 When you are a Republican you have to put up with years of ridicule for spelling potatoe with an "e", even when the school's card spelled it that way. When you are a Democrat you have no responsibility when nearly one million are hacked to death while you twiddle your thumbs or have the press repeatedly cover for you while you sit back and relax with Oval Office blow jobs as muslims repeatedly attack and even then the most devastating mass murder in our nation's history perpetrated in our first city is swept down the memory hole by a complicit press. So why would anybody want to identify as Republican? Better to tell the pollster or nosy coworker to fuck off.

Posted by ed 2009-04-29 20:57|| 2009-04-29 20:57|| Front Page Top

#14 if the GOP got back to its constitutional roots and truly limited govt views I'd identify as a Repub. The house repubs have done pretty well imho of keeping it together. The senate needs some cleaning out methinx. collins/snowe gotta go. McCain's a joke.... and would someone please tell Meghan McCain to shut the fuck up.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-04-29 21:18|| 2009-04-29 21:18|| Front Page Top

#15 if the GOP got back to its constitutional roots and truly limited govt views I'd identify as a Repub.

+1 The more they try to be inclusive of lefty ideas, the less use I have for them.

Posted by AzCat 2009-04-29 22:10|| 2009-04-29 22:10|| Front Page Top

#16 I registered as a Democrat - so I could vote against Obama in both the primary and the general election.

Posted by Blinky Hupogum5670 2009-04-29 22:17|| 2009-04-29 22:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Rasmussen says things aren't that bad

In March, the number of Democrats in the nation fell two percentage points while the number of Republicans fell by half-a-point. Democrats continue to have a sizable advantage in terms of partisan identification, but the advantage is smaller than its been since December 2007.

Currently, 38.7% of Americans say they are Democrats. Thats down from 40.8% a month ago. Its also the first time the Democratic total has slipped below the 40% mark since the Republican convention bounce last September.

Prior to this months result, the Democrats have been over the 40% level 10 times in the previous 13 months (see history from January 2004 to present).

In March, 33.2% of American adults say they are Republicans. Thats down from 33.6% a month ago. Over the past year, the number of Republicans has ranged from a low of 31.4% in April to a high of 34.4% in September.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-04-29 23:52|| 2009-04-29 23:52|| Front Page Top

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