"Moral satisfaction"

Have you heard the shrill panic from the far left about (dumb) Evangelical conservatives taking over America?

Andrew Kohut from the Pew Research Center was on NPR today and discussed why this is a distortion. Here is a choice quote-

"John Kerry carried the moderates but he carried them only by nine points. Bill Clinton carried self-described moderates by a much larger margin. What that tells me is a couple of things. One is, this is not a right-wing country. At the moment it's basically a centrist country that in this election tilted slightly to the right, but that there is an alternative majority out there. And I think liberals have been, in some ways, excessively eager, for reasons that are in some ways beyond me, to say this was all about religious conservatives in the middle of the country voting a certain way. I guess there may be some moral satisfaction that some people get out of asserting that that's the reason the election came out the way it did, although I don't particularly share that either. It seems to me if you are not on the conservative side it is much more heartening that this election was decided in the middle and not at the extremes because that suggests that this is a country in flux and with a good deal of give in the electorate. People are open to arguments."