Tuesday, 11 May 2010 08:31
Another "cheat blog"
Interesting article in "Smart Politics" today about Minnesotans and the "liberal" i.d.
From the article:
The 2.62 to 1 ratio of conservatives to liberals is the highest recorded by SurveyUSA in Minnesota since it began semi-regular monthly tracking of the issue in June 2005 - besting the 2.43 to 1 ratio in July 2005.
(No other polling firm has surveyed Minnesotans more than SurveyUSA during this five-year span).
In only eight of the previous 66 polls have conservatives outnumbered liberals by at least a 2:1 ratio.
In early March of this year, three weeks before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, only 27 percent of Minnesotans identified as conservatives, with 15 percent as liberals, for a ratio of 1.80 to 1.
Forty-seven percent of Gopher State residents identified themselves as politically moderate in both the March and May SurveyUSA polls with the number of undecideds decreasing from 11 to 6 percent.
To be sure, over the past year there has been a concerted effort by critics of the Barack Obama administration and Democrats in Congress to equate what many see as a liberal agenda coming out of Washington D.C. as 'socialism.'
While it may take a bold individual to identify as a liberal these days, only the brazen freely call themselves 'socialist.' Political discourse that blurs the line between the two political ideologies has perhaps contributed to making an already unpopular political ideology even less attractive.
Ah- the Minn-Mods. The Minnesota Moderate pickle in the middle who just wants to vote for the winner, who has no political viewpoint other than "I'm independent" which means absolutely nothing. These are the folks who say "Tom Emmer looks angry" regurgitating the Star Tribune's positioning. To which I always say, "Uh-huh, okay, um, what do you think about him on the issues?" Crickets.
These are the same folks who say "Michelle Bachmann is crazy." They only say what they think they should say in order to be accepted by the larger group. In other words, they're FOLLOWERS and followers will follow ANY strong leader regardless of their ideology. These are the folks who probably voted for Barack Obama and then quickly took the bumper sticker off their car when they realized he wasn't popular anymore. The GOP is going to have to win enough of these folks over to win in November. The numbers look good to do this right now, but these people don't make up their minds until about two weeks before the election so it's still anyone's game.
Then the liberals, poor liberals. It's always been lame to be liberal. Even Paul Wellstone couldn't make it "cool." But hey, I can at least sort of respect liberals. I like a point-of-view. I just hate what they're doing to the country.
