Are Democrats too liberal?
What a Gallup poll says about the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans
Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
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What happened
A Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party as "too liberal" jumped from 39 percent last year to 46 percent this summer. (Gallup)
What the commentators said
Democrats must be concerned to see how clearly the country identifies "Democrats with the dreaded L-word," said Michael McAuliff in the New York Daily News. But one Gallup poll saying that more Americans have decided Democrats are too liberal isn't "exactly a clarion of doom for the Dems." Still, it's a rare source of cheer for the battered Republicans.
That's the price Democrats pay for being back in power, said Peter Roff in U.S. News & World Report. Republicans may think that their job of rebranding their troubled party will be easy if voters become worried that Democrats are too liberal. But Gallup also found that the number of people who think Republicans are too conservative is unchanged at 43 percent. So the numbers don't exactly give them the upper hand against a "rock star" like President Obama.
Times will only get tougher for Democrats as Americans sour on life in "Nancy Pelosi's America," said Chris Horner in National Review. When, thanks to the stimulus bill, we all get "the biggest tax increase in U.S. history," people will realize how the Democrats doled out billions of dollars in taxpayer money to buy support from "special interest groups and their politicians" to ramrod their expensive agenda through Congress.
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Posted by keith, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 4:44 pm I am not afraid of liberal democrats, but I am afraid the ultraconservative republicans who sometimes mistaken for the KKK because of their ideas and believed.
Posted by Rob, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 5:00 pm Both parties are far too extreme in their politics. That's the problem with this country. Virtually no one in national politics is a moderate, willing to see that neither extreme liberalism nor extreme conservatism is correct, or a proper path to follow. They have both entrenched themselves in idiotic extremist party platforms, and have given the American people nothing to choose from except two equally defective, mindless brands. Until one or the other gets over themselves, we'd be better off flushing both parties down the toilet.
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Posted by Aaron, Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:15 pm What Rob said...
Posted by Len Holzheimer, Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:27 pm I am a republican again, because of Cuyahoga county. Are you allowed to be Democrat Nationaly and republican !!
Posted by republikant, Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:56 pm Great point What, except for the fact that she said essentially the same thing herself: Palin's foreign policy experience came up when she gave her first major interview, on Sept. 11 to ABC News. Asked what insight she had gained from living so close to Russia, she said: They're our nextdoor neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.' From a Boston Globe Article 9/26/2008
Posted by AngloBlack, Sunday, July 5, 2009, 11:05 am Whatthehehockeysticks, look it up, Palin did say she once saw Russia from Alaska. Look it up, it's impossible, even on the clearest day on the peice of Alaska closest to Russia, won't happen. She's an ignorant person who should never hold a position of power until she gets an education in world politics. You will also soon find that she's under investigation for stealing/laundering building materials from the oversized sports complex that she hornswaggled a small town into paying for
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