Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...

These lines from the Yeats poem are descriptive of our recent political environment. After the historic election of Barak Obama the fight for the center has begun. The "Right" has decided that we are still a right-of-center country and he better keep that in mind while making policy.

Barak Obama was elected with a significant majority in the Electoral College and by the widest margin in the popular vote relative to the elections of 2000 and 2004. Yet we are a right-of-center country.

I think our Elected Representatives are right-of-center. As demonstrated by the graph below Conservative Representatives vote further to the right than their constituents views. On the Liberal side of the curve the the divide is not that great.




In fact another interesting fact that can be gleaned from this graph is it seems that there are more people who are center and center-left than center-right. So why are our conservative friends claiming we are a right-of-center country?

Well to intimidate and limit what they see as Obama's "Leftist Agenda". However with the facts clearly demonstrated by the graph and the Election results Obama's "Leftist Agenda" is far more Main Stream than they are.

I'll borrow another line from Yeats to close:

The falcon cannot hear the falconer......