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Daily Kos — Sunday pundits! Frank Rich: Election junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only just begun. The conservative crackup may be ugly, but as entertainment, it’s two thumbs up! Tod Lindberg: Center-right? Thus Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, in Outlook last week: The United States "is indeed, as conservatives have been insisting in recent days, a center-right country." On ...

The Deadly Democrats
The Mahablog — ... which today includes Afghanistan, the tribal areas of Pakistan and parts of Iran. Filiu has gathered evidence of this Muslim eschatology in a new book called “L’Apocalypse dans l’Islam,” which will be published soon in English. Maybe they and the extremist Christian fundies can build an apocalyptic theme park where they can act out their fantasies without killing the rest of us. Unrelated, but a good read: Tod Lindberg, “The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left.” And Frank Rich is a hoot today.

End of the Era of Error. Part Two
N/A — It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . Thus Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, in Outlook last week: The United States “is indeed, as conservatives have been insisting in recent days, a center-right country.” On election night, former Bush guru Karl Rove opined on Fox News, “Barack Obama understands this is a center-right country, and he smartly and wisely ran a campaign that emphasized it.” And it’s not just conservative pundits and ...

Tackling the center-right myth
Political Animal — ... constant refrain from Republicans and mainstream media figures that the United States, even now, is a "center-right nation." I'd hoped the cold, hard facts of the election results would have proven otherwise, but many conservatives prefer not to believe their lying eyes. Today, Policy Review editor Tod Lindberg, a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution and an informal foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign, explains that it's time for the right to realize that the electorate has shifted and the "country's political center of gravity is shifting from ...

Times they're a changin'
the talking dog — ... Thus sayeth Tod Lindberg, in his WaPo piece " The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left. " Mr. Lindberg, a former Washington Times journo, a Hoover Institution fellow and an advisor to the McCain campaign, just told us... wait for it... "elections have consequences." Well, more specifically, elections appear to have some significance as a reflection of how voters are actually thinking. In short, a 52-46 presidential win, at least 57 Senators and a double-digit pickup in the House for the Democrats leads Mr. Lindberg (and anyone without their head up their ass, i.e., those not ...

McCain adviser admits America is ‘center-left.’
Think Progress — ... continue to insist that America remains a center-right nation. Today in a Washington Post op-ed, Hoover Institution fellow and former informal adviser to the McCain campaign Tod Lindberg rebuts this myth: ...

Dollars and No Sense, Except for Newt
Taylor Marsh — ... That was until Missouri revealed it was a red state, finally failing to predict a president, even when the Democrat was elected in an electoral rout from North Carolina to Indiana to Nevada. We are a center-left nation, with Republicans caught with their Reaganism in tatters. Tod Linberg today: ...

"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Hoover Institution Admits It's a Center-Left Nation
Open Left - Front Page — The Hoover Institution is one of the major conservative think tanks in this country, so this op-ed in the Washington Post today is pretty incredible for its honesty: ...

Lindberg: It’s a Center-Left Nation
Matthew Yglesias — ... Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution fellow and generally paid-up rightwinger, says we should draw the obvious conclusion from the fact that left-of-center politicians keep winning elections: ...

Center-Right, Center-Left, Etc.
The Corner — Monday, November 17, 2008 [image] Center-Right, Center-Left, Etc. [Ramesh Ponnuru] 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 the country is "center right" if the point is that we are, compared to most developed countries, a bit more religious, free-market, and nationalistic in orientation. If that's all it means to say "center right," though, we could probably go through a ...

11/18: Netroots' Hopes Dashed
Blogometer — ... 's Ramesh Ponnuru : " 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 the country is 'center right' if the point is that we are, compared to most developed countries, a bit more religious, free-market, and nationalistic in orientation. If that's all it means to say 'center right,' though, we could probably go through a long period of political domination by liberals and still ...

Center-Right Nation Update
Firedoglake — ... media are actively debating whether America is a center-right nation... after two consecutive elections where the Republicans got their asses handed to them.  That's a pretty remarkable (and depressing) demonstration of the right's ability to influence our national discourse. And the purpose of all that squawking and concern trolling?  To create a new reality that obscures the one we actually live in.  Following Tom Schaller and former Washington Times Editor Tod Lindberg, Ron Brownstein is the latest to give us a peek at what that reality actually ...

Who Needs The Fairness Doctrine?
Firedoglake — ... parts per million. The thing is, as much as I personally find the talk radio screamers offensive and repulsive, they're doing far more damage to their own cause than they are to ours.  McCain and the GOP ran the most talk radio-y election campaign in American history, accusing Obama and other Democratic opponents of socialism, atheism, terrorism, Islamism, being-black-ism, and every other ism they could think of, and it blew up in their faces. Tom Schaller, Tod Lindberg, Ron Brownstein, and others have all documented how Democrats have gained ...

Now we get liberalism "until it comes out of our nostrils"
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Behind this speculation is a larger question of whether the United States has become a "center-left" nation, or if we still, as some conservative/GOP commentators have stated, remain center-right. This question has been discussed in many articles recently, and is probably one for an entirely seperate diary. An interesting assessment of this question, by Tod Lindberg, appeared in the WaPo last Sunday, and his conclusion was that we are no longer a center-right country. He says: ...