andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 10/21/2008
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Jon Meacham argues that we are a center-right nation: Democratic presidents from FDR to JFK to LBJ to Carter to Clinton usually wind up moving farther right than they thought they ever would, or they pay for their continued liberalism at the polls. Should Obama win, he will have to govern a ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/21/2008
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A CENTER-RIGHT NATION?.... If the available evidence is
accurate, in about two weeks, Americans will help elect
a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, and possibly a Democratic president. A majority of the nation's governors are already Democrats. ...
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A center-right nation?
townhall.com - 10/22/2008
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... bloggers, Obama has few real credentials and is just a politician who has hidden his hard-left ideology. But, according to the liberal blog Whiskey Fire , their case amounts to nothing and isn't honest, particularly when it suggests that Obama has gone too far in his pro-choice positions. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] A Center-Right Nation? - Steve Benen, Political Animal [image] Are We a Conservative Country? - Jonathan Cohn, The Plank [image] Left, Right or Center - Andrew Sullivan, Daily Dish [image] Heads They Win, Tails ...
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