The Center-Right Myth

Posted on 11/07/2008 at 8:24 am by Bob Cesca

I don’t know if this is knee-jerking in lieu of tear-jerking for disappointed McCain supporters, or if this is the death rattle of the Rove non-reality based universe, but this Tourette’s-like “America is center-right” argument is such a crop of hooey. I mean, it’s so false and disingenuous that it’s almost unfair to counter-attack it. Think Progress does a pretty good job here, though.

And here’s a pretty drawing that illustrates the wrongness. (Note to Sarah Palin: this is a map of the U.S. Americans such as and.)

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The blue areas represent counties that went more Democratic than four years ago. In other words, more votes for the so-called “most scary liberal senator in the worrrrrllld!”

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  • dontpanic23

    Wow, I even see my hopelessly red little county in there as light blue. The reverse-Bradley Doritos guy who whispered to me that he voted for Obama is one of those above, I’m sure.

  • Groobiecat

    I would really like to see the demographic stats for the redder counties in terms of income, edumacation, etc…

  • http://www.twoeightnine.com twoeightnine

    Gawd, it’s like a gaping flesh wound there in the red.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ 289 – I see it more as a healing blue power enveloping the wound.

  • jmrunning3

    Groobie, my little light-blue county, Tulsa, is surrounded by red and light red. All those around us are agricultural and mainly very small towns. The muslim/socialist/gun-confiscation/abortions-for-all meme is alive and well.Do you recall Olbermann’s piece on the gun lovers that go on a shooting spree out in the country once a year with all their firepower? That’s near here. We have more churches per square mile here, in my opinion, than can possibly serve the local populace. But they do.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ Groobiecat – You don’t have to see the demographic. It looks like southern Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, northern Alabama, Kentucky, and the Virginia/West Virginia border. We all know the caricature there, and it becomes a caricature for a reason.

    Look at that one lonely county in Colorado. Man, I’d hate to be them, surrounded by all them “libruls.” And of course Arizona voted for their guy. The map has changed, people.

  • http://www.twoeightnine.com twoeightnine

    @Carl. I like that much better.

  • anemone17

    Well, the map is center-right, sort of. Only the geographic center of the country is still voting for the right. Otherwise, I can’t figure out what they hell they mean.

  • yelorose

    Good to see my county dark blue with no red around until the upper part of the state is too see. Hate the solid red showing on the other maps for my state.

  • violadefacto

    I can see my house from that map!

  • CupcakeCult

    Amazingly there are a few pockets that went more Republican. Sorry but that screams racist to me.

  • bibimimi

    America is bleeding out her hoo-hah.

  • dontpanic23

    Bibi, I nearly lost my coffee again. Thank you for that. And her penis has turned mostly blue, look at that baby, though the nutsack around Joe Shmoe’s part of FL looks inflamed.

  • duemsday

    I live in Arkansas. Trust me, it SUCKS to still live in one of the few areas that still clings to the conservative myth. It’s full-on Clinton hatin’, Limbaugh lovin’, Fox News watchin’, Palin worshipin’, and now…”Obama Anti-Christ-in’.I need to move.