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2017-10-13 Fifth Column
New Study Finds Democrats Moving Left, Driving Growing Partisan Gap
In other words, conservatives are who we always were, and the Left is becoming a monster.
[FreeBeacon] A new study from the Pew Research Center shows a growing partisan gap in opinions on major issues, driven in part by Democrats' leftward drift.

Pew found Democrats have moved substantially left on a variety of issues while Republicans' views remain relatively constant. That was true across social and economic issues; Pew claimed that the split between Republicans and Democrats is more pronounced than any divides by race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

"This poll and some other recent ones show that Democrats are pulling more strongly to the left and Republicans are not pulling quite as strongly to the right as a general matter," said Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who specializes in American public opinion.

One such leftward shift came in Pew's question about welfare. As to whether or not the government "should do more to help the needy, even if it means going deeper into debt," 71 percent of Democrats respond affirmatively, up 17 points over the past six years.

Republicans' opinions have barely shifted, down slightly from 25 to 24 percent. Additionally, some 76 percent of Democrats say "poor people have hard lives because government benefits don't go far enough"‐the highest proportion of Democrats since Pew started asking the question in 1994.

"The party is being pulled in a more liberal direction, there's no question about that," Bowman said. "I mean Elizabeth Warren's comment a few weeks ago essentially that this isn't Bill Clinton's party, we're not the party of welfare and crime. I think she's reflecting the views of many of the people in her party. And I think a lot of it happened during the Obama years."
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 All their ideas are stupid.
Posted by newc 2017-10-13 00:37||   2017-10-13 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe the GOP is the Party of Stupid, but the Dems are becoming the party of stark raving lunatic morons! Oh well. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by gorb 2017-10-13 01:29||   2017-10-13 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Quit calling them liberals or democrats. Call them for what they really are - Socialists.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-13 06:50||   2017-10-13 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 It is hard to imagine that the Democrats could move any further left without being out-and-out bomb-throwing communists.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-10-13 08:17||   2017-10-13 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 See: "Ayres, Bill"
Posted by Frank G 2017-10-13 08:45||   2017-10-13 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Quit calling them liberals or democrats. Call them for what they really are - Socialists.

I'd call them lazy bums who want Uncle Sugar to do everything for them.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-13 10:58||   2017-10-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 It is hard to imagine that the Democrats could move any further left without being out-and-out bomb-throwing communists.

Apart from a handful of Antifa types I think most of them are too weak from the vegan diets and too damn lazy to throw any bombs. Carrying cardboard signs and driving beat up old cars with Bernie bumper stickers is about all they're good for.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-13 11:02||   2017-10-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#8  but the Dems are becoming have become the party of stark raving lunatic morons!

Sorry gorb, wrong tense FIFY.
Posted by AlanC 2017-10-13 15:35||   2017-10-13 15:35|| Front Page Top

#9 No shit, Sherlock! Welcome to the Communist party, pal.
Posted by Raj 2017-10-13 15:45||   2017-10-13 15:45|| Front Page Top

#10 They took over the schools so now liberals are made younger and younger and their mind starts to rot quicker.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-10-13 23:24||   2017-10-13 23:24|| Front Page Top

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