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The respondents are 33% Dem, 33 Rep, and 33 supposedly Ind. So assuming all the Reps voted for Romney, and all the Dems voted for Obama, then Obama won 13:3 with INDs. Great night INDeed.
That is an overall poll. No break down on specifics. And not that big a win for Obama. Not going to do him any favors as far as undoing damage he did to himself after last debate.
The biggest thing of all is he failed on the economy tonight. So who cares if you think he did better over all. He clearly lost on the key issue
A blog? Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal are very notable political scientists, but I am sure that your credentials exceed theirs. After all they have only been publishing papers on this topic since at least 1984. http://voteview.com/The_Polarization...itics_1984.pdf
As for spending, Conservatives love it, if they are not addicted to it. Look at the Conservative icon, Ronald Reagan. He exploded spending and out debt. Look how Republicans treat candidates like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. They lambaste them for their limited government views. Look at how Republican drool over Mitt Romney and his tax plan which he wants to offset tax cuts by defending Big Bird and planned parenthood.
The last two Republicans that were fiscally responsible were Nixon and Eisenhower, who would be labeled commies in the modern day GOP.
The idea that Conservatives care about spending, when they have three decades of exploding the debt is absurd.
do you even understand that there is a difference between conservatives and republicans? Not all republicans are conservatives, and not all conservatives are republicans. I agree there are plenty of republicans that believe in big government, and if you think they have anything to do with the fiscally conservative movement then you need to look around, Liberterians and other fiscally conservative groups are growing daily specifically because the republicans love to spend money.
As for the writers writing for 28 years, that is nice, but that does not change the fact that they can easily decide what criteria to use in their chart to get the desired results.
It is a well known fact that both Reagan and especially Bush tremendously increased spending by the government, with Bush introducing plenty of new government programs and bailouts that no conservative agreed with. Now you want to place a chart showing how conservative they were, are you kidding me? The truth is the last 6 years of his presidency Clinton was much more conservative then Bush was his whole 8 years.
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But, it isn't as skewed as the last debate.
