America is a bluish center-left nation

Let's stop this center-right horseshit. Did you see the election results? 7.7 million mote votes. 68% of the electoral vote. 6 new Senate seats.

Then there's this map

According to Gallup, on the issues, Americans...
...are pro-choice (67 percent)
...support the Geneva Conventions with regards to torture (57 percent)
...don't want the government snooping in their bank and internet records (67 percent)
...want the USA Patriot Act changed or eliminated entirely (81 percent)
...support protecting the environment at the expense of economic growth (55 percent)
...believe that global warming is happening (86 percent)
...believe that it's the government's responsibility to provide health care (69 percent)
...support the decriminalization of marijuana (55 percent) and support the legalization of medical marijuana (78 percent)
...are opposed to attacking Iran (68 percent, according to a CNN Poll)
...support labor unions (60 percent)
...want government funding of embryonic stem cell research (56 percent)
...believe that free trade hurts American workers (65 percent)
...believe rich people and corporations aren't paying enough taxes (66 and 71 percent respectively)
Overall party affiliation? 54 percent of Americans are Democrats (with leaners) and 39 percent are Republicans (with leaners).

The schizophrenia continues, with extreme right-wingers insisting that America is a center-right nation, despite all of their positions being repudiated.

But the band played on. Matt Yglesias, who's been a two-day strong clearinghouse of push-back on the center-right myth, compiles this video of people insisting on the conventional wishful thinking.

Watch here:


Of course, none of this explains how the Obama got to be the candidate who, in Karl Rove's words, "smartly and wisely ran a campaign" that emphasized how center-right everyone was, TWO DAYS after being branded far and wide as a socialist radical.

Here's the Electoral Vote map from mydd.com showing the EV with the map distorted to show population. Not much red there.