Is the country "center-right"? Excellent debunking by Mediamatters' Foser

[spooky3]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070012?f=h_top

"On Tuesday, Americans chose as their next president an African-American named Barack Obama who campaigned on a near-universal health-care plan, allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, and a move away from the belligerent foreign policy of the past eight years. Republicans, and some journalists, had spent months (falsely) saying Obama is the single most liberal member of the U.S. Senate -- and maybe even a socialist. The American people responded by electing him in a landslide.

This, naturally, is very good news for the Republicans, according to many pundits. It proves once again that America remains a "center-right" nation.

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NBC's Tom Brokaw, for example, looked at county-by-county election results and concluded that counties carried by John McCain account for greater land mass than those carried by Barack Obama. This would be meaningful, if only fields and streams and rocks and trees were conservative voters.
..."

[Wapsie B]

1. Note to Brokaw: Dirt don't vote.

:eyes:

[Doremus]

2. Brokejaw is a freeptard. n/t

[spooky3]

3. kicking - this is worth a full read!

[always_saturday]

4. Great article. Hope it will mitigate some of the "center" bullshit around here.

[democracy1st]

5. kick

[Borgnine]

6. And if all that nature could vote...

...it sure as HELL wouldn't be voting Republican.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. I wish I'd see this yesterday

It would have had a rec if so.

Good read, and I'm sending the link to a few 'conservatives'/'republicans' that are under the impression that Obama can't lead from the left or he will lose in 2012.

Note: A liberal WON. He won with his voting record, leadership record, and grassroots man of the people get down in the dirt and get your nails dirty 'community organizing'. America just admitted that we are through with the insanity and doing things the same way over and over again. And FWIW - Bill Clinton's biggest failure was he pandered to the right before he EVEN got into office.

I think President Elect Obama is going to main true to what he values, and is smart enough to know that we have got to get a LOT done between now and the mid-term elections. That means going BIG in a Liberal way straight out of the gate.