Recently, Republican candidates for the 2016 nomination have grasped the political virtue of standing up to the extremism of Democrats on the abortion issue.  America is a profoundly conservative country.  I have written often in the past about the lopsided self-identification of Americans as conservative rather than liberal.  Gallup asks this question every year, and the results are always the same: in almost every state of our nation, some years in every single state, respondents describe themselves more often as conservatives than liberal.  Battleground Poll data for more than a decade has shown, in every single poll, that an overwhelming majority of Americans call themselves conservative. I have also noted that the despised state of conservatives in the media, academia, and entertainment means that there are probably more conservatives than even these polling data state.  How many college students, for example, feel comfortable calling themselves...(Read Full Article)