Whoa. Really? Who knew.
Brian, over at The Conservatives, has a post up looking at James Carville’s recent survey, which involved a discussion with a bunch of conservatives.
You and I could immediately guess what came of this, but it was news to Carville and the left.
Conservatives are not racist.
Conservatives are convinced Obama is pushing socialism.
Conservatives don’t care for the GOP leadership either.
I could have told you all those things. Naturally, though, liberals aren’t so sure about the race thing.
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
what? conservaties oppose 0 because of his plans and policies...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 4:36PM EST (link)and not because of race, wow, just a stunning revelation. BTW how much can I get paid to act like I am doing a study then just report what I already know? /snark off
Mary made him say that.
buzzyboop Friday, October 16th at 4:53PM EST (link)Title self-explanatory.
Cheers, Frank
Yep, Mary
peg_c (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 7:21PM EST (link)You beat me to it.
If I were married to this Gollum nightmare, I’d have kicked him out of the boudoir years ago until he toed the line. He’d totally be my slave by now or no “soup” for him.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Looking at the comments section
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 9:42PM EST (link)is quite fascinating: presumably well-educated, intelligent liberals are currently throwing a hissy-fit over the fact that the outcome of Carville’s study don’t fit their narrative, afterwhich they start talking about how Republicans only look at news and evidence which backs up their points.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
That Carville survey is absolutely fascinating
Bill S (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 10:05PM EST (link)One of the key aspects is that it is not a mocking, leftist-promoting piece. It is simply a report on the findings of their study, and I believe it’s fairly on-target, Brian’s observations about the “religious imagery” notwithstanding.
That will actually be a good tool for the Left to have. Now that one of their own has taken a fairly even-handed look at the conservatives, they’ll have better insights on how to deal with us. Whether they’ll actually USE those is another question altogether.
I wish someone on the Right would do a similar study.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Their focus group was older, white, Southern men
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 10:18PM EST (link)So religious imagery may have well been evident in their discussion (it was when I lived there). I doubt that that would be the case among other conservative groups (younger conservatives, the Midwest and West, etc.). I, too, was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it appears to have been a good-faith study. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that their conclusions are correct, but it is better than a bad-faith study with a pre-determined outcome.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
Their conclusions seemed pretty reasonable to me
Bill S (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 10:26PM EST (link)I didn’t see anything that really sounded outrageous, but I didn’t go over it in gory detail either.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
My impression as well nt
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 11:13PM EST (link)The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
The two key assessments
Uma Richie (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 10:48PM EST (link)that I read from this are:
1. Conservatives are disenchanted with the GOP leadership.
2. Independents are still eating up liberal talking points.
The resulting Democratic strategy, if they do not get caught up in their own biases, should be to suppress the conservative vote by portraying the Republican candidate in a given general election as a Washington insider or a party establishment type.
If Carville is correct on point two, I fear for our country.
The Republican candidate can counter with religious references
Beaglescout (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 1:40AM EST (link)That is certainly not anything that Washington insiders do.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
this is amazing
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, October 16th at 11:30PM EST (link)as far as religious imagery. You can find a whole lot more of it in any group of African Americans meeting for any reason.
Of course that flies right past the left.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle