More bad news for Romney: GOP voters trending more conservative

-Liberals have become completely extinct in the Republican Party. This may seem obvious but 9% of primary voters in these six states still identified themselves as liberals even in 2008. That figure is all the way down to 2.5% on these polls. Whatever liberals remained in the GOP as recently as three years ago have left the ranch now…

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These numbers make it clear how severe Romney’s problems with conservatives are- there just aren’t that many moderate to liberal GOP voters left to prop him back up. There’s been a thought that a centrist could win the nomination in 2012 if the conservatives cannibalize each other but I don’t think moderates have a big enough piece of the pie to get someone nominated even if there are a glut of conservative candidates. The ideological composition of the GOP at this point is such that it’s probably just flat impossible for someone perceived as a moderate to be their nominee. Here’s the exit poll data from 2008 and our most recent polls in these states:

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