We looked at the Battleground Polls for last year and this year (you remember: 61% of the respondents called themselves conservative, while 35% of the respondents called themselves liberal). Well, there’s further confirmation that the USA is not a nation of Cindy Sheehans and Alec Baldwins, and from CNN no less (hat tip to Club for Growth Blog):
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A quarter century after the Reagan revolution and a dozen years after Republicans vaulted into control of Congress, a new CNN poll finds most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that, as the Gipper put it, “government is not the answer to our problems — government is the problem.”
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Queried about their views on the role of government, 54 percent of the 1,013 adults polled said they thought it was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Only 37 percent said they thought the government should do more to solve the country’s problems.
Americans had a slightly different perspective when it came to the specific issue of promoting traditional values. A slight majority — 51 percent — said they thought that was an appropriate activity for government, while 43 percent said it should not favor any particular set of values.
The sampling error for the questions in the poll, conducted for CNN by Opinion Research Corporation, was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
You know those CNN moonbats are mystified.
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Anyone who doesn’t live in big city liberal ghettoes knows this. Hooray!