Conservatives still dominate??

This is interesting.

"40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal." And note the uptick over the past year for conservative self-identification!

What this is saying to me is that today's moderates are largely backing President Obama and the Democrats. The implication, to me, is that the Democrats' support is very soft, and if unemployment numbers stay bad or get worse, if the budget deficit explodes as projected, and if the economic recovery we are starting to see stagnates, Obama and his party could be in trouble, as early as 2010.

Or maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part.

It says that "Liberal" is still not a label that the majority of people want to be associated with. However, they didn't appear to list "Progressive" as a choice. I wonder how that would change the result.