Everyone knows that Americans want someone who is socially liberal and fiscally conservative

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

I have been hearing that analysis for years from the beltway CW crowd, who are, and have always been, a bunch of Country Club/Rockefeller Republicans... greedy and militaristic, but uncomfortable with religion and preeningly 'tolerant,' even when they are not.

From todays Rasmussen polling on fiscal and social attitudes:

...The largest segment of the population—24%--consider themselves to be both fiscally and socially conservative. Seventeen percent (17%) say they are both fiscally and socially moderate.

Fourteen percent (14%) are fiscally moderate and socially liberal. Eleven percent (11%) are fiscally moderate and socially conservative. Ten percent (10%) are fiscally conservative and socially moderate. Nine percent (9%) are both fiscally and socially liberal. Six percent (6%) are fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

Among Republicans, 47% are both fiscally and socially conservative.

Democrats have no such dominant base. Twenty percent (20%) are fiscally moderate but liberal on the social issues. Nineteen percent (19%) of Democrats consider themselves moderate on both fiscal and social issues. Sixteen percent (16%) of Nancy Pelosi’s party say they are liberal on both fiscal and social issues.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/general_current_events/24_are_both_fiscal_and_socially_conservative_9_fiscally_and_socially_liberal

6 frikin' percent. As usual, the media centrists who always know 'what Americans think' are a freakish, irrelevant minority.