Postelection poll results contradict media claims that U.S. is a "center-right" country

http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070013

Postelection poll results contradict media claims that U.S. is a "center-right" country

Summary: Several media figures have claimed that President-elect Barack Obama won the election because he ran as a conservative and that notwithstanding Obama's victory, the United States is a conservative country. However, a poll conducted November 4-5 showed strong support for the progressive positions that Obama has articulated on the issues, rebutting the claim that the United States is a conservative country.

Several in the media have claimed that President-elect Barack Obama won the election because he ran as a conservative and that notwithstanding Obama's victory, the United States is a conservative country. In claiming that Obama ran as a conservative, these media figures ignore the central components of his platform, including repeal of tax cuts for the wealthy, near-universal health-care coverage, and redeployment of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. Democracy Corps, a Democratic polling group, released a poll on November 7 that showed strong support for the positions that Obama has articulated on these issues. The poll also included questions that provided a direct choice between the position taken by Obama on a given issue and that taken by Sen. John McCain (without referring to Obama or McCain) -- with the more progressive choice echoing Obama's position and the more conservative echoing McCain's. For most questions that juxtaposed a clear progressive view with a clear conservative view, the progressive position was more popular. A list of positions Obama took on major issues during the campaign makes it clear that he did not run as a conservative, and the Democracy Corps poll results rebut the claim that Obama ran as a conservative and that the United States is a conservative country.

Democracy Corps polled 2,000 voters November 4-5 and posed several questions as direct contrasts between a conservative approach and a progressive approach, some of which were directly drawn from the arguments made by Obama and McCain. The poll asked which statement "comes closer to your own view, even if neither is exactly right."

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The USA obviously voted to the left of the USA's usual political spectrum, but your Democrats are possible to the right of Canada's conservatives on many issues. Obama needs to fullt back universal healthcare. For profit care does not work to serve the public's interests.

During the campaign they claimed that Obama was the most liberal Senator in Congress maybe ever. They even called him a socialist but now that he has won he has magically turned into a conservative. Let me see I guess the 'logic' goes like this

1. Republicans/conservatives are always right
2. People vote for the candidate that has the right ideas (conservative ideas)
3. Therefore if Obama won he must have be a conservative.

You know reading about these people makes my neck hurt from doing so many virtual double takes.