Study Shows "Center-Right Nation" Narrative Spiked Immediately After Election Day

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http://action.credomobile.com/sirota/2008/11/study_shows_centerright_nation.html

When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted that the news media would actually increase its usage of this term after Obama won. I did a Lexis-Nexis search of the term, and was the first to note the trend and make the prediction that "if Obama wins, expect more frantic talk from the fringe about how electing a black man billed as an Islamic Karl Marx obviously means our country is more conservative than ever."

Feeling like I was out on a limb (and remember, this was almost 2 weeks before a group of major progressive pundits belatedly started writing about the trend), I asked a friend out here in Denver who works with a company called Trendrr to officially track whether my prediction was right - and you can see from the results above, it was - more so than I ever expected.

As the graph shows, the use of the exact term "center-right nation" spiked immediately after election day (point "0" is the day my column published, point "1" is election day).

While it's true - this trend study doesn't tell us how many of the "center-right nation" references are saying this is "not a center-right nation." But a look through Lexis-Nexis shows it's safe to assume that the vast majority of these references are asserting this is a "center-right nation."

[Warpy]

1. Fascists whistling through their own graveyard

Obama's still going to have his hands full fighting them off.

[rocktivity]

2. Sore losers.

And by the way, wouldn't a center-right country have voted in McCain no matter what?

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rocknation

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. THe dolts proclaiming this have no clue

where or what the "Center" is. After convincingly electing a candidate that THEY labeled a far left "Socialist", they instantly proclaim that the election was a confirmation of "Center-Right". What would they consider "Center-Left"? These fruitloops have been so far over the horizon to the right they have no grasp on reality.