Only 24 percent of Americans say their political views are about the same as President Obama's! Dang -- looks I'm finally in a super majority and I can quit worrying about Obama getting re-elected. But then a little farther into the poll report:
The number of voters who say they share about the same political views as the president ties the lowest result measured since August and, interestingly, compares exactly with the number who say the same of Congress. Only 24% of voters hold about the same ideological views as the average Republican member of Congress, and another 24% feel that way about the views of the average Democratic congressman.
A lot less there than meets the eye, huh? People have specific, complicated sets of beliefs, and it would be remarkable if very many of them said their views were the same as the president's or the average Republican or Democratic member of Congress. And it doesn't mean much when people say someone else is "more liberal" or "more conservative" than they are; they don't go through daily life subjecting public officials to political purity tests the way those of us obsessed by all of this do.
