What's Important

A Recent PEW poll taken to survey just what is important today to people sorted by political persuasion was very informative. We know that political leaders look at these a lot to mold their positions on major issues. Some even change their position based on these like Obama's new drilling position, and McCain's new border position. Here are a few tidbits from the survey:
1. The top rating for both Republicans and Independents was terrorism but it was only 3rd for Democrats.
2. Illegal Immigration was 4th for Republicans but only 17th for Democrats
3. A strong military was 7th for Republicans but only 20th for Democrats
4. Morality was 9th for Republicans but 18th for Democrats
5. Global warming was 21st for Republicans and 16th for Democrats
There were many more findings in this PEW poll, but I want to point out a few thoughts on these. Making terrorism the top priority is a winning position today and the Democrats should not be in a position where they relegate this to 3rd. Americans want the world to be safe for them. It will come back to haunt the Democrats. It is consistent that the Democrats don't give a rats butt about defense and defense issues as can be concluded from #1 and #3 above. This has been the observation of most intelligent observers for decades. Sometimes Democrats try to look tough when the polls tell them to, like just after 9/11, but don't be fooled, they don't care. It was reported that when Obama went to Afghanistan, he wouldn't even shake the troops' hands. Another interesting point is morality. This explains why abortion is important to Republicans and no big deal for Democrats. Final point notice that nobody really cares about global warming. The Democrats still are dragging this issue around trying to get Americans to push it up on the list because of the environmental lobby and the strong pressure they are exerting, but most people just don't buy it. The final glowing point is racism. It never even showed up in the top 20 views of either party. Watch out Obama, trying to "solve the racism problem" in America is a position that nobody cares about.