Minivan Moderates News Today

From nbc news and "esquire" magazine. chuck todd reports. >> reporter: a new nbc news/"esquire" survey finds we all could use a pair of 3d glasses because theres a growing political center that doesnt fit into the forced political stereotypes of the past. in fact, a majority, 51% of the country actually falls in the middle lane of american politics. the hard left lane is just 21%. and the hard right lane is only slightly bigger at 28%. the center is as diverse as the country and basically fall i...

It was done. we had something nearly 3,000 interviews. you asked them different questions, different views on economic issues, social issues, all these various issues and our pollsters, we used the obama pollster and romney pollster and they worked together and segmented them into eight groups. two are truly liberal groups. the bleeding hearts and the gospel left. two of the groups are hard right. the radio sort of talk radio right and the evangelicals, 28%. what was stunning is how big the midd...

20%. we have lisa simpson and tyler perry. this is the gospel left plus the bleeding hearts. heres your right evangelicals represented by ned flanders and the talking radio heads. so theres your hard left and your hard right. guess what, most of america falls in the middle. think of the minivan moderates, claire dump free of "modern fami family," the pickup populous, our friends from the richardson family here, "duck dynasty" and then the whatever man. let me dig deeper into this. the minivan mo...

They support raising the minimum wage. they are very weary of government regulation. they are weary of immigration reform and affirmative action. you see this hodgepodge of beliefs that exist within the middle of these two fringes. >> whats the political implications of this. >> two ways to look at it. cynical political consultant will do with this information what theyve done for years is cherry pick. we have our hard core. in many ways you saw the obama romney campaigns go about this. the obam...

Polarized from the rest of the country. the way we did this survey we found people and put them in eight buckets, left, center and right. what was interesting was the right and left buckets together, the most liberal and most conservative did not make up a majority. a majority of the country is right here in the middle. let me take you through a few details. here is the left. sort of a religious left, gospel left, bleeding hearts. thats 21%. these folks voted 99-1 for president obama. to columns...

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