An absurd early response from CNN that essentially Obama has to "move to the middle." Where does this come from? He has been legislating from the center since the second year of his Presidency. CNN has clearly moved to the right to try to compete with Fox and they are disturbingly out of touch with any reasonable analysis of the past 30 years. This is not surprising given the blue hairs before the camera, but it is a tiresome way to start the next four years. A more incisive analysis seems to be coming from MSNBC where they are arguing about the asymmetrical partisanship in America -- with the conservatives moving to the right and the democrats moving to the new center (which keeps moving right). I have written about this before, but it is time for the democrats to start standing for something other than "a little better than the GOP." If they do that, and lead a New New Deal, as Obama promised four years ago, the economy will improve, the deficit will fall in the long run, poverty will shrink, the middle class will thrive, economic growth will return, inequality will decrease and they will have established a solid base for the future. This has been true since 2000, but the legacy of Clinton continues to haunt the party and push them to the right to fight out tight races when they could be winning big. The lesson of 2008 should be just that -- Obama won huge by offering the country hope and change. But then he allowed the Republicans to reframe his actions as too radical for America. It is time to restore that narrative and throw away the talk of deficits for a time and actually help this country grow again. Let's get started ...
P.S. Romney is not conceding Ohio even as everyone has called it. One wonders if he is counting on the GOP Ohio machine to somehow steal the state for him? Romney remains the tool I always assumed he was.
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