Michael Barone and our own Quin Hillyer, among others, remind us that conservatives are winning the broader debt limit debate. But that’s not the only battle in which we conservatives are winning.
A Gallup survey released today shows that we also continue to win the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people. According to the poll, more Americans again identify themselves as “conservative” (41%) than “moderate” (36%), and almost twice as many call themselves conservative than “liberal” (21%). For two decades now, conservatives and moderates have battled for the plurality, but each could consistently claim twice as many adherents as liberalism. For the third consecutive year, however, conservatives can claim greater numbers than moderates.
That certainly isn’t the sort of change that Barack Obama might have predicted on January 20, 2009.
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