Chart of the Day – 11.22.2008

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CHART OF THE DAY….This comes from David Sirota, who has been watching the outbreak of the “center right” meme ever since November 4th, which you might recall as the day that America elected a liberal president, a liberal Congress, and a liberal Senate. David asked a friend who works with a company called Trendrr to track mentions of the term, and the results are on the right:

The media has exponentially increased the amount of times it claims that this country is a “center-right nation” — at the very same time public opinion data shows the country is a decidedly center-left nation.

Indeed. I guess a desire for less Bush, less war, better healthcare, competent governance, acknowledgment that global warming isn’t fiction, and economic stimulus in the face of a massive recession is now evidence of a center right world view. As John Maynard Keynes famously said, “We are all center rightists now.”

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