ourfuture.org - 11/7/2008
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On November 3rd, conservatives told us Barack Obama was running as a socialist. On November 5th, they are telling us he ran as a conservative: (h/t Yglesias and ThinkProgress )
openleft.com - 11/1/2008
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openleft.com —
In my newspaper column this week, I noted
that the term "center-right nation" is now the word...
du jour for the elite media and Punditburo. We are being told that no matter how big a progressive landslide Tuesday may bring, our country nonetheless will ...
(more)
"Center-Right Nation" Watch
openleft.com - 11/5/2008
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openleft.com —
The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus - a reliable
parrot of conventional wisdom - joins the Punditburo's insistence...
that the largest progressive mandate in contemporary American history means that obviously - clearly! - America remains more conservative ...
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Ruth Marcus Edition
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The Great Repudiation
Orcinus —
The Concern Trolls are roaming free in the Village these days: John King, Laura Ingraham, Charles Krauthammer, Tom Brokaw, Karl Rove, Ruth Marcus … I don't know how many talking heads I've heard claim that "America is still a center-right country" in the past few days, but if it were a drinking game, I'd have alcohol poisoning. I guess I'm confused. I keep hearing from a lot of conservatives that McCain lost because he wasn't conservative enough -- ...
The Need to Go Big
Open Left - Front Page —
... As a matter of politics, Going Big is also an imperative - though, thanks to the elite media's incessant "center-right nation" lie and D.C.'s corporate-funded ...
David Sirota: The Need to Go Big
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As a matter of politics, Going Big is also an imperative - though, thanks to the elite media's incessant "center-right nation" lie and D.C.'s corporate-funded ...
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ourfuture.org 11/29/2008 — Sure, this is a center-right country, but only if you substitute addition for analysis. There are more conservatives than liberals — as there has been for years. So add them to the 44% of the electorate that says they are "moderates," and you get a ...
"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Ruth Marcus Edition
ourfuture.org 11/6/2008 — The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus - a reliable parrot of conventional wisdom - joins the Punditburo's insistence that the largest progressive mandate in contemporary American history means that obviously - clearly! - America remains more conservative ...
"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Doug Schoen Edition
openleft.com 11/7/2008 — Doug Schoen is the DLC-affiliated pollster for Republicans like Mike Bloomberg - the guy who bashes progressive organizations from the right, the genius strategist who makes his name on perpetually telling Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on ...
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demosthenes.blogspot.com 11/8/2008 — Dday's ticked. "Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives." -Paul Wellstone, Election Night 1990 acceptance speech We are 18 years on from that piercingly simple statement, and yet nobody in the Democratic Party ...
Center Right Nation? Survey Says: Not So Much
openleft.com 11/16/2008 — Last time Democrats won 50%+ of the House popular vote: November 4.
Last time Republicans won 50%+ of the House popular vote: 1946.
Numbers on the flip.
House Popular Vote
Year Dems Reps
1942 46.1% 50.6%
1944 50.6% 47.2%
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Me vs. Karl Rove
themonkeycage.org 11/4/2008 — Rove predicts that Obama will win 338 electoral votes ( pdf ).
I’ll say 378. That is all the solid or leaning Obama states at Pollster , plus IN, ND, MO, NC, and FL. Of those 5, Rove predicts that only FL goes to Obama. Currently, 538 tells ...
Center-Right, Center-Left, Etc.
corner.nationalreview.com 11/18/2008 — Tod Lindberg argues that conservatives are fooling themselves if they think that the U.S. is a "center-right nation." Me, I'm not sure what it would mean for the country to be either "center-right" or "center-left." I can see the point of saying that ...
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