MOST AMERICANS ARE CONSERVATIVES, BUT NO PARTY TO GO TO.

A new Gallup poll is out and it claims that 40% of Americans identify themselves as conservative. Only 21% view themselves as Liberals. 35% of America is moderate. What’s interesting about the study is that 22% of Democrats consider themselves conservative.

The GOP would have a great chance of taking the house back and in a few years taking back the White House, but they have to find someone who is Conservative and get on message. The GOP also needs to define how conservative they are going to be. Maybe each of the candidates needs to write an essay called, “What Being A Conservative Means To Me”.

Here’s a link to the Gallup poll (link)

BRISTOL PALIN & FIANCE SPLIT…BIG SURPRISE!

Oh yeah, this is shocking news…

From FOXNews:

Report: Bristol Palin, Fiance Break Up
Source say the split occurred a few weeks ago, and that it was mutual between Bristol, 18, and Levi Johnston.

The teenage daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her fiance have broken up two months after she gave birth to their child, People.com reported.

Source say the split occurred a few weeks ago, and that it was mutual between Bristol, 18, and Levi Johnston.

The young Palin told FOX News’ Greta van Susteren that they intended to get married after they both finished high school.

Click here to watch the interview between Bristol Palin and Greta.

“Eventually, we’d like to get married. We’re focusing on, like, getting through school and just getting an education and stuff, getting a career going,” Palin told Greta.

Palin also told Greta that her and Johnston didn’t find being young parents “glamorous” and they both felt having kids should wait.

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy was announced days after her mother, Alaska’s governor, was named John McCain’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

Bristol Palin gave birth Dec. 27 to a boy named Tripp.

The full story is located on People.com

CHAD WILL BE TWITTERING TONIGHT

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GALLUP: TEXAS DIVIDED

A Gallup series called “State of the States” shows Texans are about evenly divided(43% Democratic 41% Republican) when it comes to party affiliations. In fact according to Gallup, Texas is one of the most evenly divided states in the country.

“The most balanced political states in 2008 were Texas (+2 Democratic), South Dakota (+1), Mississippi (+1), North Dakota (+1), South Carolina (even), Arizona (even), Alabama (+1 Republican), and Kansas (+2 Republican).”

So what does this mean? Nothing really. This is the Obama bounce we are seeing nationwide and it’s a long time until 2012. What does this mean for the Governor’s race? Could a Democrat win the race? Well sure anything is possible, but with 2 high profile Republicans in the run I don’t see it happening…yet.

Here is the link to the Gallup poll: LINK

PALIN 2012: THE MAVERICK IS BACK!

Gov. Sarah Palin has pretty much announced that she will run for President in 2012 by launching SarahPAC today. According to CNN (link) this will just keep her as a player in national politics. From CNN:

“SarahPac will support local and national candidates who share Gov. Palin’s ideas and goals for our country,” says the PAC’s Web site, which promises that Palin will be “a strong voice for energy independence and reform.”

Sarah Palin sticking around is a good idea I think. President Obama is getting a lot of headlines and to be honest there is no real Republican/Conservative leader. If Palin can rebuild her image a bit and travel the country while supporting other candidates, I think she could build up an even bigger following than she has now. I do believe that many Republicans are looking for their “Obama” and Sarah Palin could be it. I may not agree with Palin on all the issues, but she sure did get crowds energized during the election. Of course next to McCain that wasn’t hard to do.

Here is the link to SarahPAC: LINK

More on this tomorrow’s LFN.

Audio of Gov. Mike Huckabee Calling Into LFN

If you missed Gov. Mike Huckabee on this mornings LFN, we’ve posted the audio of the interview under the “Podcasts” section on chadhasty.com. You can also click HERE to listen to the audio. Goc. Huckabee will be at Barnes and Noble here in Lubbock on Sunday from 2-3pm signing books. Check out the audio, he has some interesting answers to a few questions.

Obama Landslide?

This morning on LFN I predicted an Obama landslide victory tonight with wins in VA, OH, NC (close..but a win) and CO, NM for battle ground wins. That would give Senator Barack Obama 326 electoral votes. I was battling between Florida and North Carolina turning blue, but at the end of the day I think McCain will edge out Obama in Florida while Obama edges out McCain in NC. At first even I thought that was crazy, but even the master Karl Rove is now predicting an Obama landslide. The difference between his map and mine? Florida and North Carolina. He thinks Florida will flip to blue while NC stays red.

Here’s the link.

 

Podcasts Posted, Why Do Conservatives Dominate Talk Radio?

If you missed tonight’s show or just want to hear it again, it’s been posted on our podcast site just go to: http://chadhastyshow.podomatic.com/. Tonight we talked about the Lubbock Party Patrol, Dungeons and Dragons, Texas Tech, and Trevor White’s article in the Daily Toreador regarding why conservatives dominate talk radio.

Speaking of that article… click the link to see the whole article: LINK

And here’s part of the article:

I believe that the success that conservatives experience is because people who listen to the radio for news and commentary are more educated people who have a well developed BS detector. Radio listeners can sense when talk jocks are bending the truth or avoiding a certain perspective that makes more sense. This means when a host presents his opinion he must back it up with either facts and logic, or just be so outrageously humorous that the listener doesn’t care if he is wrong.

This is the downfall of liberal beliefs, actual logic. You see, for the most part, at the fundamental level liberal thoughts are actually not thoughts at all, they are inclinations based on feelings: Feel sorry for the poor; be scared of guns; want equally distributed income so we can all be happy.

So why do you think conservatives dominate talk radio?

Hello Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin just finished giving her acceptance speech for the VP slot and she was very impressive. We will be breaking this down tomorrow on LFN from 6-9am on 790 KFYO, but I’d like to know what you thought tonight.

Everyone will be saying this tomorrow, but tonight a star was born in the Republican party. She is the GOP’s answer to Barack Obama and that’s exactly what they need. McCain can’t compete with Obama’s star power or his speeches, but as we saw tonight Sarah Palin can.

Palin hit a homerun tonight…a big homerun. She related to the everyday person and she seemed like the mom next door. Even when Palin went on the attack against Obama, she seemed funny and sweet yet strong. Hillary Clinton was attacked many times for being too mean. That won’t happen to Palin. When she attacked Obama, she had a great smile and did it with humor. You didn’t see the attack coming, but what she said still hit home…and I bet it hit the Obama camp.

I did find it interesting that Palin didn’t mention Obama by name tonight at all, she only referred to him as “our opponent”. I guess they didn’t want to give him free mentions. I’m sure we will see a bounce tomorrow for McCain, but unfortunatly McCain speaks tomorrow and we all know that he isn’t the best. I’d rather have Palin speak again.

At the end of the day I still think all Palin does is energize the Conservative base which is important, but I’m not sure she will be able to pick up too many independents. And yes when people vote I do think they will be deciding between McCain and Obama. However, it seems as though the McCain camp wouldn’t mind seeing Palin mix it up with Obama more than McCain.

One last thing before tomorrow. Does anyone else think that McCain and Palin look a bit uncomfortable together on stage? It’s like McCain doesn’t want to get too close.

It wasn’t looking like a great race between Obama and McCain, but now with Palin in the mix…Game on!

Palins Daughter Is Pregnant

So it’s come out today that Palin’s 17 year old daughter is about 5 months pregnant. No, she isn’t married but she does plan to marry the father of the child which is nice I guess. The article doesn’t say whether the young couple is in love, but hey I guess that doesn’t matter right? My favorite part of this article is this quote:

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,” the Palins said.

For some reason I just don’t believe that the Palins were as excited and sweet in the privacy of their own home about their daughter getting knocked up. Which is what happened. I guess that whole abstinence education failed again.

So, does this change any feelings towards Palin and family values? We’ve seen families and the kids looked down upon by society when the teenage daughter gets knocked up. Will the people hold this against McCain and Palin? Does it change your feelings?

Full article HERE