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Versailles vs. America: "Center-Right Nation" Edition
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David's done yoeman's work here-and elsewhere-documenting the pernicious Versailles meme that despite the stunning victory won by Obama and Democrats running for Congress, America "remains a center-right nation" and therefore Obama must not enact his planned agenda. I finally got to the end of the 98-page post-election Democracy Corps report, "The Change Election Awaiting Change", and on page 94, I found something directly relevant to this pernicious Versailles meme: the American people overwhelmingly believe the exact opposite: that Republicans ...
GOP Set To Drive Off A Cliff
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Unlike the Versailles punditalkcrazy, which remains deeply enamored of the mythical "center-right country" they think America is, the real, actual American people--also known as the electorate, citizens, folks, what-have-you--are quite clear-eyed about why the Republicans lost this election: they're just too damn concervative! The evidence from the post-election Democracy Corps report, "The Change Election Awaiting Change", could not be clearer [click image for wider version]: ...
Republicans Split!
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Note: This is my final diary (well, for today at least) mining the Democracy Corps report, "The Change Election Awaiting Change", for nuggets of wonky goodness. ...
Robert L. Borosage: The Center Left Nation
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... The Center for America's Future joined with Democracy Corps to do a nation wide poll on election eve. (for full report and poll go here) With an expanded sample, we could probe attitudes of voters by political identification. What we found was clear: on both values and issues, moderates line up with liberals to form a strong majority that isolates conservatives. Consider ...
Mandate Watch: Were Democrats Elected to Attack "The Left?" Part II
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... Indeed, post-election polls suggest that because "the left wing of the Democratic Party" has been proven correct, Democrats are now in power. Additionally, history suggests that when "the left wing of the Democratic Party" has more power and a bigger voice - not less power and a smaller voice as Hildebrand and his ilk seem to want - we might be out of all the messes we're in a lot faster. And yet, to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, rather than now criticize "the left," it would be better if these insiders just said thank you and went on their way. ...
Time to Deliver
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... We, however, have several advantages. The public, in poll after poll, is progressive on the issues progressives are addressing. What’s more, where conservatives are ...
Beck Moans That Republicans Are Too Far Left
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... But a poll of 2000 voters taken during and immediately after the November 4, 2008 election shows a vastly different story. Republicans think they lost because they were not conservative enough but the electorate as a whole thinks Republicans lost because they are too conservative. ...
A Village Fairy Tale: Coming From a Pro-Gun State Explains Opposition to Health Care Reform
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... Polls have long shown us the country is basically unified in support of progressive economic positions. Indeed, there have been so many polls showing Americans strongly supporting universal government-sponsored health care, more progressive taxation, fairer trade deals, a Wall Street crackdown, and an end to grotestque bailoutism that I'm frankly sick of linking to all of them so much. ...
David Sirota: A Village Fairy Tale: Coming From a Pro-Gun State Explains Health Care Opposition
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... Polls have long shown us the country is basically unified in support of progressive economic positions. Indeed, there have been so many polls showing Americans strongly supporting universal government-sponsored health care, more progressive taxation, fairer trade deals, a Wall Street crackdown, and an end to grotestque bailoutism that I'm frankly sick of linking to all of them so much. ...
