Little-Acorn
06-12-2014, 03:02 PM
This is hardly news to people who have been paying attention. But to blinders-on Democrats, who maintain that Republicans have gotten far more conservative during the Bush years, it will come as a rude shock that THEY are the one who changed... and have kept changing.
But it will only come as a shock, if they take those blinders off before reading.
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The Three Liberal Myths About Partisanship Busted By Pew's New Poll - Kevin Glass (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/06/12/the-three-liberal-myths-about-partisanship-busted-by-pews-new-poll-n1850762)
The Three Liberal Myths About Partisanship Busted By Pew's New Poll
Kevin Glass
Jun 12, 2014
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The Republican coalition has shifted in interesting ways in the last twenty years - going from conservative to liberal and back again. The Democratic coalition, on the other hand, has pretty consistently gotten more liberal
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There is as much ideological uniformity on the left as the right. The share of Democrats holding consistently liberal views has grown steadily over the past 20 years, quadrupling from 5% in 1994 to 23% today. Social issues like homosexuality and immigration that once drove deep divides within the Democratic Party are now areas of relative consensus. And Democrats have become more uniformly critical of business and more supportive of government.
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But it will only come as a shock, if they take those blinders off before reading.
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The Three Liberal Myths About Partisanship Busted By Pew's New Poll - Kevin Glass (http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/06/12/the-three-liberal-myths-about-partisanship-busted-by-pews-new-poll-n1850762)
The Three Liberal Myths About Partisanship Busted By Pew's New Poll
Kevin Glass
Jun 12, 2014
(snip)
The Republican coalition has shifted in interesting ways in the last twenty years - going from conservative to liberal and back again. The Democratic coalition, on the other hand, has pretty consistently gotten more liberal
(snip)
There is as much ideological uniformity on the left as the right. The share of Democrats holding consistently liberal views has grown steadily over the past 20 years, quadrupling from 5% in 1994 to 23% today. Social issues like homosexuality and immigration that once drove deep divides within the Democratic Party are now areas of relative consensus. And Democrats have become more uniformly critical of business and more supportive of government.
http://media.townhall.com/townhall/blog/changingleft.gif