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“Conservative Republican voters [who say they are the base of the party] believe Obama is deliberately and ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt our country and dramatically expand government control over all aspects of our daily lives,” says a focus group study by Democracy Corps, a consulting and polling outfit headed up by James Carville and Stan Greenberg.
The focus group found that while there are “intense ideological differences” between conservative Republicans and the rest of America, Democracy Corps finds there is nearly no “racial elements” to their feelings on President Barack Obama. Democracy Corps gave “full opportunity to bring race into their discussion – but it did not ever become a central element, and indeed, was almost beside the point.”
The findings did show that the “Republican base voters are not part of the continuum leading to the center of the electorate: they truly stand apart.”
The groups of conservative Georgia Republicans had different views than “a parallel set of groups in suburban Cleveland” who “represent[ed] some of the most conservative swing voters in the electorate.”
Democracy Corps wrote of the conservative Republicans who they say are the base of the Republican Party:
First and foremost, these conservative Republican voters believe Obama is deliberately and ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt our country and dramatically expand government control over all aspects of our daily lives. They view this effort in sweeping terms, and cast a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of the United States as it was conceived by our founders and developed over the past 200 years.
The Republican base also “readily identify themselves as a minority in this country – a minority whose values are mocked and attacked by a liberal media and class of elites.”
It isn’t just Obama and the Democrats about whom the conservative Republicans have negative feelings.
“They see their own party as weak, old, and out of touch,” the report reads. “They feel it has lost sight of conservative values and conservative voters and is in desperate need of new leadership.”
In other words, Democracy Corps found the Republican base’s anger against Obama is not rooted in race, but rather about fear of a perceived secret agenda by Obama to change the country in ways they do not feel is good for the country.
The Republican base believes the speed of Obama’s movement on his agenda is a sign of the takeover.
