Center-Right Nation Watch

Clues Obama Won't Govern Center-Right

By Robert Creamer
November 24th, 2008

Should progressives beware? Has Barack Obama suckered them into supporting a President who will really govern from the “center-right”? The short answer is no. more »

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

By David Sirota
November 21, 2008

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A Media Parable For “The Center”

By Norman Solomon
November 20, 2008

It’s been 16 years since a Democrat moved into the White House. Now, the fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Barack Obama must hew to “the center” if he knows what’s good for his presidency. more »

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Mandate Watch: NAFTA Reform? Psych!

By David Sirota
November 18, 2008

What do you do after a huge number of new swing-district Democrats win office promising to reform NAFTA? Apparently, if you are D.C. Democrats, you do this: more »

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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Hoover Institution Admits It's a Center-Left Nation

By David Sirota
November 16, 2008

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: more »

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Karl Rove's Bad Advice

By Bill Scher
November 14, 2008

Rove ignores the conservative "secular problem" and counsels his party to pander harder to the Christian conservative base.

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"Center-Right Nation": This Is Getting Boring

By Rick Perlstein
November 12, 2008

Eugene Robinson shows how it's nonsense. So do, um the facts: more »

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The Center-Left Nation

By Robert Borosage
November 12, 2008

Sure, this is a center-right country, but only if you substitute addition for analysis. There are more conservatives than liberals — as there has been for years. So add them to the 44% of the electorate that says they are "moderates," and you get a center-right majority. But do a little analysis. "Moderate" isn't a place holder, as voters who describe themselves that way have attitudes on the issues of the day. And when you look at attitudes, rather than addition, there is no question: Conservatives have had their day. This is a center-left, not a center-right nation.

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Elite Media Voices Begin Making Our Arguments

By David Sirota
November 10, 2008

Having been one of millions of progressives who have been out in the wilderness for so long, it's hard to believe I can write this, but I can: It seems the demands for rejecting the "center-right nation" meme, accepting the progressive mandate of the election, Going Big and emulating FDR— the demands we've been all making—are starting to be echoed even in the elite media stratosphere. more »

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"Center-Right Nation" Watch: AP Says Green Cmte Chair Threatens Green Legislation

By Bill Scher
November 8, 2008

The Associated Press laughably presumes that to get strong global warming legislation passed, a long-time skeptic of global warming legislation is better for a committee chair than a long-time supporter.

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