Center-Right Hype vs. Center-Left Data

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/center-right-hype-vs-cent_b_152528.html
Marty Kaplan - Huffington Post


While Republicans used those words' sudden currency to clamp a ceiling on the meaning of Obama's victory, Democrats fought back with myth-busting poll results about the political parties that Americans identify with, and about peoples' positions on campaign issues.

I have some data to add to that debate, and it drives a final stake into the center-right talking-point.

In August 2008, instead of asking people what party they're for, or which candidate's positions they agreed with, we - the Norman Lear Center and Zogby International - asked a scientific sample of adults to look at 21 pairs of statements. Each pair dug down to core political values. Each pair had a red (or conservative) answer and a blue (or liberal) answer.

What did we find out?

On some issues, the country has a lopsidedly blue point of view. For example, 77% of our respondents agreed that "it is our duty to help the less fortunate"; 76% said that "government is too involved in regulating morality"; 76% believe that "corporations generally act without society's best interests in mind."

........more at link.
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Great study which proves what I've always believed - if you ask people direct questions about issues they are lefties. Since the right has made Liberal a dirty word people don't want to associate with the group that most matches their beliefs on the issues. :shrug: