>Is congress and state legislators more conservative than the electorate? In both the small-c and large-C senses of "conservative", yes, they largely are. The

>Is congress and state legislators more conservative than the electorate? In both the small-c and large-C senses of "conservative", yes, they largely are. The USA currently has an economically progressive, socially moderate majority (when you do non-party-branded, issue-by-issue polling), but a government that largely consists of economic and social conservatives, rather extreme ones actually.