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Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Dear Wingnut, are we really a center-right nation?

Our undercover conservative insists America remains moderate to conservative, no matter what happened last November
By Glenallen Walken

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  • Sunday, June 28, 2009 07:16 PM

    Linguistics

    Part of it is probably linguistic. The demons of talk radio have turned the term "liberal" into a pejorative, which people, unless they think, would not want to be associated with. If the surveys were to replace "liberal" with "progressive" and/or "conservative" with "unchanging" then the results might be totally different.

    Language, after all, is very critical, which is why both sides of the abortion debate refuse to use the word "abortion." They are either pro (or anti) life or pro (or anti) choice.

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