'NEWSFLASH: More Than 60% See President-Elect Obama As "Liberal"'

From Bill Scher, here.

Here's a little news that probably won't dominate the post-election punditry. More than 60% of voters considered Sen. Barack Obama a "liberal." And he won.

Politico interviewed Sen. John McCain's long-time close aide Mark Salter, who revealed the result from the McCain campaign's own polling.

Our polling showed that more than 60 percent of voters identified Obama as a liberal. Typically, a candidate is not going to win the presidency with those figures. But I think the country just disregarded it. People didn't care. They just wanted the biggest change they could get.

Some conservatives are trying to rationalize their defeat by claiming Obama duped the nation into thinking he wasn't liberal. For example, the conservative blog Power Line said: "Despite his thoroughgoing liberalism, Obama did not run as a liberal. LIberals can run successfully for president under camouflage donned for the occasion."

And as David Sirota has been chronicling, many in the punditocracy are clinging to the fiction that the election somehow proves America is a "center-right" nation.

Sorry folks, but McCain's own polling completely refutes that claim. America read the label, saw all the plans for active government, and knew what they were buying. . . .