Toro
Diamond Member
The religious right does not dominate the GOP. That's fearmongering rhetoric from the left. Nor do tax cut zealots. Whoever THEY are.
Similarly, liberals do not dominate the Democrats. You can say the same thing that the conservative press and Republican strategists have done a very good job at painting the Democrat party as dominated and controlled by liberals.
I can't remember if it was after the 2004 or 2008 GOP nominating convention, but when a poll of Republican delegates asked with what self-identified philosophical group did the delegates primarily identify, a third responded "evangelical," which was the highest of all of the ten or so categories.
If you break down the polling numbers after the 2008 election, that is roughly the same number of Democrats who identify themselves as liberals.
A third may not be dominant, but it represents a highly influential group within the party.