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Not quite accurate HRW
Apop said (falsely) that moderates were in the majority (actual=35%).
You were the one HRW, who lumped moderates with liberals to create a shallow majority.
In which case...
Apop said "moderate," not liberal. Why would you want to group moderates with conservatives? Apop didn't.
And for the record, a four percent increase in the percentage of liberals is a 24% increase in the number of liberals; a four percent increase in the percentage of conservatives is an 11% increase.
Honest communication is the point, HRW
An amazing interpretation presented by HRW. If libs represent 21%, moderates represent 35%, and cons represent 40%, that leaves about 4% that id themselves as extreme at either end. Using the framing of HRW, the vast majority(over 75%) of the voters are CONSERVATIVE or moderate.
Even I understand that is a distorting statement.
Apop's original post IMPLIED a falsehood to be true.......just as yours does. For the record: In the 17 years of the graph, libs have increased 4 points from 17% to 21%, cons have increased those same 4 points from 36% to 40%.
I know, a truthful presentation of the facts seems unfair at times....still .....
Were all Wingnuts
How could non-wingnuts endure this site everyday
LOL that's why Obama won in November!
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And all conservatives have in the media is Foxnews - and the liberals still complain.
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A "liberal" was elected president because there are more real conservatives than liberals.
Gotcha.
ROFLMAO
How was my post an attack?
Again with the whining! Good grief, how silly.
Look at the election results from November 08. BOTH the 3rd district in Kansas and the 5th district in Missouri voted for Obama. Remember him? That guy the conservatives claim is a "liberal"? Well how can these two districts (which make up the bulk of The Star's readership area) elect a "liberal" president and yet still be majority conservative?
So yes, this is indeed a far more moderate (or even liberal) area than it is conservative. Hence, my statement in my earlier post.
Almost right, which means you're wrong
Conservatives dominate not only talk radio but, via Clear Channel, much of all commercial radio. Moreover, conservatives habitually identify the non-Fox national networks as "liberal," which certainly doesn't make them anything but more liberal than conservatives would prefer. Liberals certainly don't consider any of the mainstream media outlets to be liberal, unless you consider Pacifica or Village Voice to be mainstream.
Mr. Watash -
I read it just fine. And it looks like the only group going down is moderates. But the most important point is that real conservatives are higher percentage than liberals. And IMO, in a couple of years, the percentage of moderates will go down by the same increase in conservatives.
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And all conservatives have in the media is Foxnews - and the liberals still complain.
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To reader chazzykc
Your point in citing the Gallup poll is unclear--it shows that conservatives are a minority, that the percentage who consider them selves liberal has risen in the past fifteen years, and that the only error in apop's statement is that it should read, "The majority in the US are moderate OR LIBERAL."
Not too accurate apop....
What the conservative minority is is loud and whiney. So they are great at making noise and complaining they are persecuted when in reality they probably have more media voices than they should be entitled to......
A recent gallup poll suggests that your assessment of the general public's political ideology preference is offbase by a fair amount.......and that's assuming that the KC Metro area is no more conservative than the national average.....which one could safely argue to be the case.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx/
Your suggestion that domestic newspapers inherently and naturally reflect the ideological leanings of their readers is egregiously wrong.
I guess in your media view, having ABC,NBC,CBS, and MSNBC on the liberal side while FOX sits alone on the conservative side means that one voice is "more than they should be entitled to."....