Why LibTalk is floundering and ConTalk is moving to FM

[HotTalker]

People who think like this usually did very badly in mathematics in school.

So now people who disagree with you can't count, either?

Most studies put the number of people who identify as conservative around 40%. Self described "moderates" are another 40%, and liberals 20%. These studies were done by people much better at math than any of us.

 

[KTN Corp]

Oh, and that they had second-rate signals, and poor promotion, and some issues of having personalities not used to doing radio starting out as headliners.  That of course doesn't help.

Even Catholic radio stations (usually EWTN) affiliates have the same problem.  Eternal Truth Broadcasting started back in 2003 on KGBC, Galveston and it was barely audible in Houston during the day (and obviously inaudible outside of Galveston at night).  They stopped buying time 3 years later and according to their website, have been raising money since then to buy their first radio station.

It has been competing with established KHCB-FM, one of the early FM stations in Houston. I doubt that they would even consider EWTN overnights.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Most studies put the number of people who identify as conservative around 40%. Self described "moderates" are another 40%, and liberals 20%. These studies were done by people much better at math than any of us.

Most, huh? You and I both know that the percentages vary depending on who did the survey. If a conservative think tank sponsors the study, we get one answer. If a liberal think tank sponsors the study, we another answer. And if a survey with no political attachments does the survey, we get another number.

I would quarrel with you that the numbers I see most often are 40% conservative, 30% liberal, 30% independent or moderate.

I would also remind you that some surveys ask the people to self-identify, other surveys bury some questions in the survey that helps the professional make a determination what the person thinks, no matter what they say their affiliation is.

Ever since the WWII era our nation has been marinated in this language that liberal = Communist. liberal = evil. I regularly run into people who tell you how conservative they are, but when you sit there and throw a few bowling balls, hit a golf ball or two, play a night of poker, or sit through an elders meeting down at the church with them, you figure out they actually lean left of center and are not sophisticated enough to know themselves. How do these people show up in your 40/40/20 survey?

 

[listener-in]

Most studies put the number of people who identify as conservative around 40%. Self described "moderates" are another 40%, and liberals 20%. These studies were done by people much better at math than any of us.

Self-identified conservatives may well be that numerous, but when people are asked (without leading questions) about specific issues it turns out that they are more liberal than they claim to be.

 

[R.F. Burns]

Most studies put the number of people who identify as conservative around 40%. Self described "moderates" are another 40%, and liberals 20%. These studies were done by people much better at math than any of us.

Self-identified conservatives may well be that numerous, but when people are asked (without leading questions) about specific issues it turns out that they are more liberal than they claim to be.

Sorta like the Keep your government hands off of my Medicare statement. Sadly, too many people are ignorant of the world around them.

 

[radiophiler]

Found a 2010 Gallup poll online that said: 42% consider themselves conservative, 35% moderate, 20% liberal.

Put another way, 58% of people polled do not consider themselves conservative.