Topic: Conservatism on the rise?

[IronDioPriest]

It's always encouraging when these Gallup polls come out showing the low percentage of people who self-identify as liberal, and the relatively high percentage who self-identify as conservative.

But I think the self-identification polling is faulty, because it doesn't matter what people think they are - it matters what they are. If these numbers reflected reality, there would never be another liberal Democrat elected to public office outside Berkeley. I suspect that many or most of the people self-identifying as "moderate" are actually liberals who want to separate themselves from the negative perception of liberalism. I suspect that some of the self-identified "conservatives" are actually liberal. I suspect that many of those polled don't have any idea what the hell they are. And I suspect that many people who self-identify as "moderate" believe that the Democrat party is moderate.

Still, here ya have it @ gatewaypundit: 41% conservative, 36% moderate, 21% liberal...

Gallup: More People Consider Themselves Conservative Today Than at Any Time Since 1994

[old crank]

I do believe you have nailed it.  Many people do not know where they stand, and many people lie - they say whatever sounds good. 

[John Florida]

I do believe you have nailed it.  Many people do not know where they stand, and many people lie - they say whatever sounds good. 

 And that's why I never believed Bambi's high approval numbers, people are just starting to talk instead of holding back and we can all see the numbers only lately.

[Dan]

These polls mean next to nothing when you consider how badly teh DE's cheat.

[charlesoakwood]

Control the media control the polls, comrade. 
It is a tactic to allow the adversary a brief moment of false hope,
the better to bring dissolution.

[Libertas]

Push-polling, unbalanced sampling and statistical manipulation...mere tools for the MFM to spin and distort.

Having said that, sometimes even all the dirty tricks find a hard time hiding the truth.  But it has the frequency of a blind squirrel finding a nut...