This latest Gallup poll is quite amazing: conservatives now outnumber liberals across the country, except, ironically, in Washington, D.C.:
In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more than 160,000 Americans have said that they are either “conservative” (31%) or “very conservative” (9%). That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004.
Only 21% have told Gallup they are liberal, including 16% who say they are “liberal” and 5% who say they are “very liberal.”
President Obama and the Democratic Congress are a stronger polarizing force than their favorite neoconservative target, President Bush. It’s not even one year and the president has managed to steer the whole country into the “other” direction…
