Overplaying Their Hand: More Americans See Democrats As Too Liberal Than Any Time Since 1994
Interesting…
PRINCETON, NJ—A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party’s views as being “too liberal,” from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party’s losses in that year’s midterm elections.
The timing is the most important part of this:
Notice that since Obama has been elected the “too liberal” line passed the “just right” mark for the first time in a long time. Coincidence? I think not.
Liberals have been acting as though their electoral victories were a mandate to pursue liberalism. In truth, their electoral victories had more to do with a grumbling GOP. Republicans were laboring under scandal after scandal, and even now the conservative base as all but stopped taking them seriously. Conservatives were either staying home from the polls, or casting protest votes for the other side.
And Democrats were benefiting from that. And now they appear to be overplaying their hand.
