Seems Like Old Times: 46% of Country Now Finds Democrats "Too Liberal"

Previously, just in time for the ridonculous 2008 elections, a majority of Americans had thought them "about right" as far as ideology. Now that figure is down to 42%.

Note that in 1994 or thereabouts -- when Republicans swept them out of power in Congress -- 50% felt they were too liberal and 37% thought they were "about right:"

We're not there yet, but we just saw a 15% net change in their too liberal/about right rating.

Posted by: Ace at 07:46 PM

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1 It's that 8% that scares the hell out of me.

Posted by: jmflynny at June 30, 2009 07:52 PM (L6mOe)

2
Explain to me why some douche bags in the GOP still insist we be more like Democrats when the Democrats are losing popularity?

Posted by: Unicle tweets at June 30, 2009 07:52 PM (IjTSF)

And 8% of the country thinks they're too conservative.

Those people must be something else.

Posted by: Zorachus at June 30, 2009 07:52 PM (qc/CQ)

4 I don't see a category for 'Fucking Commies.'

Posted by: nickless at June 30, 2009 07:52 PM (MMC8r)

5 "Too Liberal" is at its highest level since 1995.

The Dems just can't help themselves.

Posted by: eman at June 30, 2009 07:53 PM (fpywm)

6 100% of RNC Chairmen think these polls are divisive and mean-spirited with Nazi tendencies.

A little Zombie Lee Atwater would hit the spot nicely right about now.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 30, 2009 07:54 PM (uM+37)

7 This poll causes global warming and global cooling unless it doesn't and that means it does.

Posted by: eman at June 30, 2009 07:55 PM (fpywm)

8 The overreaching has commenced. Commies will be commies.

Posted by: Ombudsman at June 30, 2009 07:55 PM (fWF4Q)

9 So, is anyone in that 8% who's not already part of the current administration?

Posted by: CB at June 30, 2009 07:55 PM (9Wv2j)

10 I just have to say this. Why does matt drudge have the richard simmonsesque type picture of Franken on the front page? I mean he looks like Boney Frank for gosh sakes.

Posted by: p hilton at June 30, 2009 07:55 PM (zplc6)

11
hmm, I wonder if we super-imposed unemployment figures, the line would track with the "too liberal" trend line?

In other words, I think people's largess* wanes as unemplyment rates increase.

*by people's largess I mean the people's tolerance of Congress' largess with the people's money

Posted by: Unicle tweets at June 30, 2009 07:56 PM (IjTSF)

12 I think we can win more elections if we just rech out to those 85 who are disaffected democrats.

Posted by: Michael Steele at June 30, 2009 07:57 PM (wU8X9)

The thing is that even if we do win back control of Congress the Republican party will inevitably try and makeup and get them to like us.

What we need to do the second we get back into power is go after every single leftist in this country. We need to drag them infront of Congress and then hold them in contempt and throw them into jail.

They are scum and should be trated as such.

Posted by: southdakotaboy at June 30, 2009 07:58 PM (Z2z9W)

Methinks Uncle Tweets may be on to something.

Posted by: jmflynny at June 30, 2009 07:58 PM (L6mOe)

15
Adding up the percentiles there seems to be 5% not accounted.
Maybe its the "Too asinine" contingent?

Posted by: Mr. Peabody at June 30, 2009 07:58 PM (gxVc6)

16 Or reach out, that would work, too.

8%. Eh, fuck it, what do I know about typing?

Posted by: Michael Steele at June 30, 2009 07:59 PM (wU8X9)

This is by far the most mean spirited polling conducted to date. To believe that true Americans believe my Democrat Party too liberal is simply a Republican plot to overthrow my administration.

I take great umbrage with this approach, and will ferret out these non-believers and have them sent for re-programming. They will grow to love the progressive movement, even if it kills them.

Posted by: President Obama at June 30, 2009 08:00 PM (FnA4R)

18
And if I'm right about unemployment being the barometer of the American people, then it would be very good for us if Obama and the Democrats try to legalize the illegals who are a drain on our economy.

Posted by: Unicle tweets at June 30, 2009 08:00 PM (IjTSF)

19 By the way., did someone take a look at southdakotaboy's comment #102 in ace's Franken post?

Posted by: Tattletale of Spades at June 30, 2009 08:00 PM (wU8X9)

20 Uh, we don't know, but that Palin chick is purty.

Posted by: 5% at June 30, 2009 08:02 PM (wU8X9)

21 100% of those in my household believe that the Democrats are Stealth Communists who Want to Create a Hellish Liberal Utopia and Stay In Power for Life.

Where was that category?

Posted by: shibumi at June 30, 2009 08:02 PM (OKZrE)

22 Michael Steele on Hannity.

Posted by: p hilton at June 30, 2009 08:05 PM (zplc6)

23
Michael Steele on Hannity.

And he's talking about this poll.

Let's listen.

Posted by: Unicle tweets at June 30, 2009 08:07 PM (IjTSF)

24 I predict before Obama is impeached and removed from office, we'll see record highs in the "too liberal" category.

Posted by: Hucbald at June 30, 2009 08:13 PM (O9yAg)

Okay. Totally off-topic except for the liberal bullshit angle, but...

I'm watching 'Life Without People' and there are a few things that strike me, considering this is, you know, The 'History' Channel:

1. 150 years after people, the John Hancock Tower will give way to a "pancake collapse"

Since we all know that buildings do not simply "pancake" without well and secretly placed explosive devices, how is this possible? Hell, even fuel-packed jetliners could never render such a collapse.

2. 10,000 years after people and it is "unlikely" that Shackleton's Antarcrtic cabins would remain.

Wait? How in the hell has the "subzero" temperature made it possible to say "unlikely"? Won't the world have been incinerated due to evil SUVs and cans of WD-40 by then?

And...wait a minute. Nary a word about how the awful, hazardous by-products of human existence will cause the world to shrivel and die or explode into a giant fireball.

I'm so confused.

Posted by: jmflynny at June 30, 2009 08:19 PM (L6mOe)

26 8% thinks they're too conservative? Must be Barry, Billy Ayers, Rahm, and the rest of that crew.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 30, 2009 08:26 PM (XxFkK)

27 Conservatives and Republicans (to the extent they overap) will always be at a disavantage because they are simply not as good at lying, and image-basing their agendas.

VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS: WE DON"T LIE AS WELL.

Posted by: flooflyparisparamus at June 30, 2009 08:27 PM (T4xKI)

28 What can I say? They vote the stupid fucks into office then act surprised when they act like the commies they are. 52% of the country is clinically stupid.

Posted by: maddogg at June 30, 2009 08:33 PM (RL5Dn)

29 VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS: WE DON"T LIE AS WELL.

or

VOTE REPUBLICAN, WE'RE JUST STUPID, NOT EVIL

Posted by: shibumi at June 30, 2009 08:34 PM (OKZrE)

30 Did anyone notice that the high water mark for people responding that Democrats were "too conservative" was also around 1994? Curiouser and curiouser...

Posted by: Miguel Sanchez at June 30, 2009 08:36 PM (/PS1j)

31 That 8% are the old left over Soviet sleepers that never went home.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 30, 2009 08:36 PM (g/H5G)

32 The 8% are probably pretty much tenured college and high school faculty members, I assume.

Posted by: DocJ at June 30, 2009 08:39 PM (zTlKP)

33 As with any polls coming out of Gallup (or pew, or quinnipiac, or any of them), I wonder what the numbers really said. I guess if we assume their usual weighting of their samples with 65% democrats/liberals, the numbers are much, much worse than reported.

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 30, 2009 08:40 PM (GgHaB)

34 That picture of Ahnold on Drudge looks like he just shat his pants and is trying to figure out how to get out of there without anyone noticing.

Posted by: Miguel Sanchez at June 30, 2009 08:40 PM (/PS1j)

35 28 What can I say? They vote the stupid fucks into office then act surprised when they act like the commies they are. 52% of the country is clinically stupid.

Posted by: maddogg at June 30, 2009 08:33 PM (RL5Dn)

Let's be honest. Like 65% of the country is clinically stupid. Some of the "independent/moderate" votes break our way.

Posted by: In Exile at June 30, 2009 08:43 PM (Dw6L6)

36 Good news except the numbers are not looking good for the Republicans either.

43% Too Conservative (that's funny) those are steady numbers.

34% About right and those are declining numbers.

17% Too liberal these are rising numbers.

Posted by: sandbagger at June 30, 2009 08:47 PM (nw/4W)

17% Too liberal these are rising numbers.

Glad to see that I am in the top 17% of something

Posted by: In Exile at June 30, 2009 08:54 PM (Dw6L6)

38 What kind of psychotic thinks the Democratic Party is too conservative?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 30, 2009 09:05 PM (PQY7w)

39 How about too communistic?

These damned DemocRATs are oblivious to the danger that awaits them if they keep going down the path.

They're like rats nibbling at cheese in a trap.

I hate 'em too.

Posted by: torabora at June 30, 2009 09:07 PM (D0u95)

Buy a lot of ammo, wear your NRA hat, listen to talk radio. Just to make the libtards crap themselves.

We're comin' for you little spinless, unarmed, cowardly pissants. It won't be pretty.

Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2009 09:26 PM (C8Pcc)

Meh, polls like this mean very little. What matters is how people act when it is time to vote. And a lot of them will have no reason not to vote for Dems, simply because the Dems give them free stuff by taxing the rest of us. The election of 2012 will be won before the first vote is cast, since between gerrymandering districts as a result of the Democrat-controlled census, legalizing illegal aliens, and old-fashioned vote fraud and vote intimidation the Democrats will have majorities in their pockets.

Yes, I am a pessimist. Why do you ask?

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids at June 30, 2009 09:45 PM (ZGWaA)

42 If the R's can't/don't take advantage of the epic clusterf*ck that our country will be in 2-4 years well then.... what am I thinking, it's just time to go suvivalist.

Posted by: rockhead at June 30, 2009 09:48 PM (RykTt)

43 The country needs a new third party. I don't trust the GOP anymore. Too many RINOs like Bush and McCain.

Posted by: Thomas Jackson at June 30, 2009 09:50 PM (B8gqF)

44 38 What kind of psychotic thinks the Democratic Party is too conservative?

It's gotta be the college professor set. I tell ya, I never met a real-life Marxist until I set foot on a college campus.

Posted by: chemjeff at June 30, 2009 10:03 PM (wy+AE)

45 It took Clinton two years to over reach and tip the scales, this guy managed it in about 3 months.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 30, 2009 10:16 PM (g/H5G)

Bonus points for using "ridonculous" in a post.

Bolt FTW!

Posted by: RarestRX at June 30, 2009 10:17 PM (rmNST)

47 What kind of psychotic thinks the Democratic Party is too conservative?

The Ward Churchill crowd.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 30, 2009 10:18 PM (g/H5G)

48 8% == ACORN + MSM + (Hollywood*0.95)

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 30, 2009 11:18 PM (rZ235)

49 Easy, boys. Easy.

Posted by: ErikW at June 30, 2009 11:50 PM (hKtiw)

50 I know some of those psychotics who think the democrats are too conservative. They agree with us on many issues. Media bias, the need to impeach the president, the failure of government social programs. They just see it "differently".

Posted by: John Galt at June 30, 2009 11:53 PM (Ylv1H)

Kinda like the ELF types who spike old-growth trees.

Now THERE is an environmentalist sub-culture that deserves to die in a fire.

Posted by: ErikW at July 01, 2009 12:57 AM (hKtiw)

52 The Democrats may be losing ground in the polls BUT the Republicans have NEVER been as low as they are now. Until The Republicans are seen as better than Democrats they will continue to be the losers

Posted by: John ryan at July 01, 2009 06:56 AM (Aar7x)

We're on pace to lose over 5 million private sector jobs this year, and the Democrats own it all. What's Obama got to run on?

I inherited a recession and turned it into a depression. Give me four more years?

Posted by: MarkD at July 01, 2009 08:40 AM (MMy4A)

54 Youll never see this poll in the NEW YORK SLIMES,WASHINGTON COMPOST and ATLANTA URINAL/CONSTIPATION

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at July 01, 2009 10:33 AM (jxrwP)

Hey, yooo-hooooo!

I'm over here, look at me!

I'm more mavericky than Palin and I'm a Republican that disagrees with everything republican just like my dad.

Hey! Look at me! Why aren't you paying attention to me?

Hello?

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