"But Obama won on a center left campaign. How do you explain that?"
Yet what he promised has been roundly rejected, and at the same time his actions provided the spark that created the Tea Party movement. And, in all national elections of recent decades, on a county by county basis, Conservatives have won overwhelmingly.
It is the country's population centers that tend to be Liberal, places where government jobs, grants, contracts, and welfare are concentrated.
Were we not a Republic, we would be a Liberal nation, which is why Liberals want so much to do away with the Electoral College.
I recall that in my youth, CA was ultra Conservative, excepting for LA and SFO/Oakland. Growth around these areas pushed Conservatism into outposts of a comparative few rural mountain counties, place that don't see much in-migration, or goverment checks.
O*ama, I think, was/is an aberration, as much as the seeming continuing popularity of P*lin. But, we will get a better handle on that by late 2012.
Cheers,
VP in AZ |
