And the bias toward the left has even infected the layout artists!

Don't you love it?
The headline: The Myth of the Middle--
And the whole page is shoved hard left!
Better yet, in the "Most Viewed Article" box, there's a link to an article called For GOP, A Void on The Right, and yes indeed, there's a void on the right!
Winger trolls, feel free to comment on this post.
NOTE Actually, the OpEd is pretty good:
he Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) surveyed more than 24,000 Americans who voted in 2006. The Internet-based survey compiled by researchers at 30 universities produced a sample that almost perfectly matched the national House election results: 54 percent of the respondents reported voting for a Democrat, while 46 percent said they voted for a Republican. The demographic characteristics of the voters surveyed also closely matched those in the 2006 national exit poll. If anything, the CCES respondents claimed they were more "independent" than those in the exit poll.
The CCES survey asked about 14 national issues: the war in Iraq (the invasion and the troops), abortion (and partial birth abortion), stem cell research, global warming, health insurance, immigration, the minimum wage, liberalism and conservatism, same-sex marriage, privatizing Social Security, affirmative action, and capital gains taxes. Not surprisingly, some of the largest differences between Democrats and Republicans were over the Iraq war. Fully 85 percent of those who voted for Democratic House candidates felt that it had been a mistake to invade Iraq, compared with only 18 percent of voters who cast ballots for Republicans.
But the divisions between the parties weren't limited to Iraq. They extended to every issue in the survey. For example, 69 percent of Democratic voters chose the most strongly pro-choice position on the issue of abortion, compared with 20 percent of Republican voters; only 16 percent of Democratic voters supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, while 80 percent of Republican voters did; and 91 percent of Democratic voters favored governmental action to reduce global warming, compared with 27 percent of Republican voters.
When we combined voters' answers to the 14 issue questions to form a liberal-conservative scale (answers were divided into five equivalent categories based on overall liberalism vs. conservatism), 86 percent of Democratic voters were on the liberal side of the scale while 80 percent of Republican voters were on the conservative side. Only 10 percent of all voters were in the center. The visual representation of the nation's voters isn't a nicely shaped bell, with most voters in the moderate middle. It's a sharp V.
Bingo. So much for Unity08--it's clearly nothing more than a spoiler operation to peel off Democratic votes. That would be why Dean Broder's endorsing it. After the Clinton years, the trashing of Gore, the swiftboating of Kerry, and the latest rash of Hilbadward's attack stories straight out of the VRWC playbook--thanks John Solomon, who's your Daddy?--it's clear that not only is the Beltway 500 our enemy, it's also clear that they're out of step with the country. Which would be why the blogosphere--the blogosphere only includes blogs that take comments, of course; all else is top-down propaganda--is gaining share. Eh?
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Two Sides To Every Issue.
That's my version of BiPartisan.
I believe with all my heart that there's a place for proponents of child abuse, torture, enforced generational poverty, global warming and all various kinds of pollution, death from tooth decay, any atrocity you can name. It's there in the GOP. They own their side.
On the other side, you know, decency, humane treatment, opportunity for everyone, saving the earth, beautification [of everything that isn't GOP swill], access to health care for everyone, that's the liberal side.
Welcome aboard.
Ruth
Ruth
You are right. Unity08 is
You are right. Unity08 is a scam.