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Center-Right No More

By matt carter ⋅ November 10, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Liberal economist (and Nobel winner) Paul Krugman states his case that the “center-right nation” meme is a canard:

Did progressives get a mandate from last week’s election? Lots of people would like to claim that they didn’t — that we’re still a “center-right nation.” And one of the assertions you hear to back that claim is that Obama’s victory wasn’t matched by down-ticket Democratic success.

Except it’s not true: down-ticket Democrats actually did even better than Obama. The Dem share of the House vote, in particular, was higher than Obama’s share of the Prez vote.

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Maybe the reason people don’t see this is that the Democratic House gains were spread over two elections. But combining 2006 and 2008, what we’ve seen is a “Democratic revolution” substantially bigger than the “Republican revolution” of 1994.

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