So How Did Obama Win The Election?

So How Did Obama Win The Election?

A new Gallup survey finds that when asked to identify themselves as conservative, moderate, or liberal:

Conservatives outnumber liberals by statistically significant margins in 47 of the 50 states, with the two groups statistically tied in Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts.

When considered with party identification, these ideology findings highlight the role that political moderates currently play in joining with liberals to give the Democratic Party its numerical advantage.

It appears that large numbers of moderates somehow or another managed to be persuaded that Obama was a moderate--or that McCain was a conservative.

It used to be said in Victorian Britain that "Conservatives were the stupid party." I have to think that the same must be true for American moderates, if they could honestly believe, with all the rather astonishingly hard left things that Obama said during the campaign, that Obama was a moderate. I can't blame moderates for being confused about McCain--who tried hard to pass himself as a conservative, when he was often hard to distinguish from Senator Clinton. But Obama?