I’m sure you’ve heard the right wingers spouting recently that after 6 months of President Obama being in the White House Americans are completely doing away with the Democratic Party and are rushing to the republic party now. They’re basing their ‘facts’ on a Gallop Poll entitled…

Political Ideology: “Conservative” Label Prevails in the South

Conservatives outnumber liberals in nearly every state, but not in D.C.

This is all the “proof” the neocons need to be able to go around the country now “to prove” that the violent minority in this country (conservatives) are who Americans want in charge!

From the same poll (emphasis mine):

These findings are based on Americans’ answers to a question asking whether their political views are very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal, or very liberal. The data come from Gallup Daily tracking in the first half of 2009, encompassing interviews with more than 160,000 U.S. adults, with a minimum of 400 interviews for each state (and 300 in the District of Columbia).

Only 400 people of each state over the course of 6 months total was asked if they their thinking was more liberal or conservative! Yeah, yeah, out of 300 million people, it’s the 20,000 (plus the 300 polled in Washington, DC!) that makes all the difference and are the final nail in the Democrat’s coffin!! And the 140,000 other adults that Gallop can’t say for sure were or were not interviewed for this poll? Pay no attention! Did they guess? Maybe! This could be why Gallop reported the following at the end of their article:

“In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.”

Here’s the polling map created by Gallop to show the breakdown of the states and where they stand:

Can we add up the population of the “Most Conservative/More Conservative” states and compare them to the “Somewhat Conservative/Less Conservative/Liberal” states please!!! This poll was obviously designed to give the violent right wingers an edge, because honestly, when you read the data info and you look at this map, it appears that the conservative movement is still flat on it’s face!

This is why I really hate polls, because they can be easily manipulated for a preferred outcome. We all know the right wingers love using numbers & percentages too to dupe their supporters. I can’t remember the republican representative’s name that came on Glenn Beck’s show a couple months ago to chit chat, but he was throwing out percentages and numbers left and right and it was almost impossible to understand what he was saying and to follow along. Well, that’s what the right wingers do. They set out to confuse as this current Gallop poll indicates. Confusion and fear is all they know.

I say, just ignore the polls. Talk to your neighbors and family instead to get a better idea of what is happening in your own state. Let’s put it this way, the republicans in my state still don’t have any enthusiasm despite what the right wing talk show hosts would like for us to believe. The following photo was taken by the Chair of the Oxford County Democrats within the last week or two at a town market. She explained that this table looked like this for most of the day….

LOL! See? She said at one point a republican market-goer got a piece of candy for stopping by this table, but he said he never got his question answered! Nice.