DAY’S END ROUNDUP

With Democrats poised to take control of both Congress and the White House, mainstream media pundits and liberal bloggers are wondering whether the United States should still be considered a center-right country. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) hears it from liberal bloggers for suggesting that the vice president is in charge of the Senate. And a couple of conservative bloggers looking to dissuade voters from backing Barack Obama use YouTube to make the case against him.

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham concludes that since the country is “more instinctively conservative than liberal,” Obama as president would have to move to the right. But if Obama indeed wins, he’ll have done so having made clear his liberal proposals, writes The Plank’s Jonathan Cohn. Pundits such as Meacham declare the country “conservative” after both Democratic and Republican victories, notes The Huffington Post’s Paul Waldman, who wonders when pundits will press conservatives to move to the center.

Though Palin told a Colorado news station that the vice president is “in charge” of the Senate, the Constitution limits the veep