2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPew: Republicans Don’t Think Supreme Court Is Conservative
Republicans in America believe the Supreme Court is ideologically moderate or, if anything, liberal, according to findings from Pew Research Center released Monday.
The survey found pluralities of Republicans describing the high court widely seen as having a conservative majority as either "middle of the road" or liberal. Forty-five percent of conservative Republicans said the court has a liberal makeup, while 39 percent said it is down the middle. Among moderate-to-liberal Republicans, 45 percent said the Supreme Court is middle of the road and 29 percent said it's liberal. No more than 15 percent of either group of Republican respondents called the court conservative.
As one might expect, Democrats have a wildly different interpretation. Forty-eight percent of liberal Democrats said the Supreme Court is conservative, while 31 percent said it's middle of the round. A plurality of 45 percent of moderate-to-conservative Democrats said the court resides in the middle, while 26 percent said it's conservative.
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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/pew-republicans-dont-think-supreme-court-is-conservative?ref=fpb
link to Pew:
http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/3-25-13%20Supreme%20Court%20Release.pdf
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)As conservative as the USSC is, it hasn't shifted radically to the right like the Republican party has - at least not yet.
Aristus
(66,381 posts)n/t
Buffalo Bull
(138 posts)You have stepped through the looking glass
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)I call BS on this whole so called Poll.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)It's amazing that a single brain could hold such simultaneously reality discordant beliefs.
Repeat after me.
The media is liberal.
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JHB
(37,160 posts)It's more tribal identity than political debate. Those not of their tribe or designated an enemy of the tribe receive a word cloud of epithets.
agentS
(1,325 posts)I swear, they don't recognize they have a good thing when it's in their damn hands.
Buffalo Bull
(138 posts)They thought that they had a 5-4 win, to lose it they way they did amounted to treason in their eyes