Are “Republicans” Missing Their Marks?

Report is spot on. Locally, things may greatly differ. Nationwide and statewide in many places, spot on.

——“In other words the ideological landscape of the country favors the GOP – except on moral issues.  There, 36 percent of the country described itself as “liberal” compared to 23 percent who went with “moderate.”—-

Could you explain where you found the data quoted above? From figure 6 (Moral Issues Score) of the report the breakdown for “strong conservative”, “conservative”, “moderate”, “liberal”, “strong liberal” is as follows:
Total 6% 27% 35% 25% 7%
Republican 15% 43% 29% 12% 0%
Independent 5% 23% 38% 28% 6%
Democrat 3% 23% 30% 29% 15%

It seems even to me they are evenly divide and there is more division among Democrats than Republicans.

Such BS. All this says is the vast majority of Americans are middle class moderate independents. Who would have guessed that?

Americans are looking for solutions to the problems they face. They are not looking for a party that will do nothing and leave them alone to continue down the path to poverty set in motion during the 1980s. We are not a libertarian nation.

Since the mid-80s the middle class has lost all the wealth it accumulated from 1940 through 1980. They have gone from a country of people confident in their place in the world, confident they can find a job, confident they can support their family, and confident they will not have to live in poverty in retirement, to a country of people who are looking over their shoulder, waiting to lose their job, and uncertain what the future holds. Worried about how they will live in retirement. If they can ever retire.

I believe this is the result of the disastrous supply side trickle down economic policies the country has been engage in since the Reagan era. And the constant attack on Social Security and Medicare by Republicans. We have focused all our efforts on making the rich richer in the hope they would become so rich their bowls would overflow and the rest of us could hang out at their feet and catch the wealth falling all around us. Now we are shocked to find most of the rich don’t give a crap about the rest of the country, and are perfectly capable of buying larger and larger bowls. Somthing people of the late 1800s and early 1900s would be shocked to think we did not know. “I owe the public nothing.” J. P. Morgan 1901.

One could easily construct a platform 65%+ of Americans would agree on, but neither of the parties would support, because their far right and far left wings would not support it and the Koch Brothers would oppose it; because it would make middle class stability and wealth the center of government policy. Then the rich would still get richer just not quite as fast, the middle class would get richer instead of poorer, and the poor would be better off, because the middle class is more charitable than the mega-wealthy.

Market Research Foundation….when a website starts talking ‘free market’, I think we can safely assume they are a Koch front.

And, Norman Analytics and Research are not anywhere to be found on the interwebs?

Erin Norman, author of this 12 page study (including title page):
Experience
Assistant to Vineet Jain
Egnyte · 2012 – Present
Marketing Coordinator / Project Manager
Coldwell Banker – Rod Creason Real Estate · 2010 – 2012
PR Intern / Social Media Intern
Crowded Ocean · 2010 – 2010 –

But, buxom Erin has long dark hair …I guess that gives her all the experience that a libertarian needs. LOL.