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Sorry, GOP: America Is Left Of Center
dailykos.com - 11/7/2008
Sorry, GOP: America Is Left Of Center
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Now that Barack Obama has won, Republicans have settled on a weird new talking point: the election results, they say, demonstrate that America is a " center right " nation. But as is typical with the GOP, their claim isn't reality-based. Consider: Democrats have won the popular vote in 4 of ...
The Emerging Center-Left Majority
prospect.org - 11/14/2008
The Emerging Center-Left Majority
— prospect.org — Conservatives dismiss the notion that this election represents the solidifying of a center-left America. A new poll shows they are wrong. (more) The Emerging Center-Left Majority

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reason.com - 11/5/2008
Is Obama a "Stealth Candidate?" Is America Now a Center-Left Country?
— reason.com — At Fox News, there's an interesting (read: tedious but what else is on?) debate about whether this election, which seems to be trending big for the Dems all around the horn, is a coff-coff game-changer in American politics. Are we moving, ask the ... (more) Is Obama a "Stealth Candidate?" Is America Now a ...

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Firedoglake:  And The GOP/Media Spin Begins

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And The GOP/Media Spin Begins
Firedoglake — ... Ah, yes, the old "Obama and the Democrats are too liberal to lead America so they better not try to exercise their mandate" line. Too bad it's utter bollocks. As Bob Geiger notes, ...

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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 ...
Left, Right, Or Center
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/21/2008 — 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. ...
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The Center-Left Nation
ourfuture.org 11/29/2008 — Conservatives started spinning even before the dancing stopped on election night. Obama's victory is impressive, but "this is still a center right nation," went the mantra. "This was a good Democratic year, says Bill Kristol, "but this is still a ...
A Center-Left Country
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/5/2008 — Wow. As David Sirota has documented in print and Ali Frick in video form , pundits have been all over the place declaring, without evidence, that America is a “center-right nation” irrespective of election outcomes or opinion polling on ...
USA a Center Left Nation
angrybear.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Robert Waldmann Matthey Yglesias points to an old mediamatters.com report which attempts to demolish the center right nation claim. I think the report is a precious resource as it collects the relevant data. Previously I found myself wasting a lot of ...
Gimpel: Center? What Center?
article.nationalreview.com 11/14/2008 — There is no coherent center.
Welcome to Obama for America
barackobama.com 11/3/2008 — Find your local volunteer event
"There's Just One Day Left Until We Take America in a New Direction!"
thepage.time.com 11/3/2008 — The GOP nominee plans to kick off his last day of campaigning in the General Election with a midnight rally in Miami, Florida. "We need to win Florida on November 4th, and with your help – we're going to win here, and bring real change to ...
The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left
washingtonpost.com 11/17/2008 — Sunday, November 16, 2008; B01 Here's the main thought Republicans are consoling themselves with these days: Notwithstanding President-elect Barack Obama , a nearly filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate and the largest Democratic majority ...
Podcast: Obama readies for the White House — CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
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Obama Voters Favor Compromise on Offshore Drilling, Poll Finds — Wash Post Elections 11/7/2008
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Romney: Obama must be 'educator-in-chief' — CNN Political Ticker 11/7/2008
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Omaha for Obama? — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/7/2008
Brad Haynes reports on the election. If 364 electoral votes wasn’t an impressive-enough haul for Barack Obama , then maybe Nebraska’s Second Congressional District – Omaha and the surrounding area – will do the trick by delivering one more.  ...