Where is the center?

Eleanor Clift described MoveOn.org as representing a lot of people in the center. Now Locke reminds is that ever man is an orthdoxy unto himself, but in an age of statistical analysis of voter behavior, it is objectivly possible to find the center. There remains a subjective or a definitional problem of its boundaries, but I am quite sure that by most standards, MoveOn isn't there. Centrists tend to see themselves between two ideologies, so they don't demonize one side and idealize the other. They may demonize both sides as insiders, politicians, or what have you, but MoveOn is not just as frustrated with the left as they are with the right.

Clift was on the Laura Ingraham show this morning (her web site is annoyingly not clickable so you can't cut and paste from her site). Ingraham refered to the polls that show 2/3's of church goers identify as Republicans. Clift responded by fallacy so outrageous that I have to take her to be an idiot or a liar. Clift ignored the polling data and went right for the unrepresentative sample. Reagan wasn't very religious and Carter was, oh and Clinton seemed to know the Bible pretty well. As though these individuals are fine stand-ins for all democrats. Aparently all democrats feel lust in their hearts, cheat on their spouses with young people, and speak with a southern lilt. Or not. Ms Clift, when confronted with polling data, deal with polling data, and don't try to argue that a hundred million people can be described by the guy who chose to ran and then got elected.

She also claimed to not know why she was a polarizing figure. As I said, and idiot or a liar.