"Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters remain conservative on both fiscal and social issues, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
"Just 10% say they are fiscal and social liberals. Sixty-one percent (61%) are some other combination. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
"These findings are consistent with surveys back to November 2007, as is the continuing pattern that voters tend to be more fiscally conservative than socially conservative.
"Forty-four percent (44%) describe themselves as conservative on fiscal issues such as taxes, government spending and business regulation. Forty percent (40%) say they’re moderate when it comes to fiscal issues, while only 11% claim to be fiscal liberals.
"But just 35% say they’re conservative when it comes to issues like abortion, public prayer and church-state topics. Thirty percent (30%) are moderate in this area, and 31% are social liberals.
The rest of the article is here.
While the liberals, both nationally and locally, attempt to discredit the Republican nominees for President by painting them as social conservatives, the 2012 election will be a referendum on Obama's fiscal policies. Much like Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs which states that people need to satisfy their own needs before those of others, voters in 2012 will be voting on fiscal issues and not social issues. Too many people are out of work. Too many people are worried about federal deficit spending. Too many people, including our youthful voters, are very worried about the massive national debt.
Now, with presidential scandals developing which clearly demonstrate that the Obama administration has been playing fast and loose with the people's money for political purposes (Solyndra and LightSquared), the people are going to be looking for the real "hope and change," because what they got in 2008 is crony capitalism and extreme liberal/socialist fiscal ideology.
In the glorious words of Bill Clinton, "It's the economy, stupid."
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