WHERE ARE DEMOCRATS FROM? Gaia? Pandora?

My own opinion is Lake Wobegon, where everyone is above average and no one ever fails.

David Brooks, the right-leaning columnist for the New York Times, illustrates the "Wobegon effect". Taking President Obama as a proxy for Democrats, Brooks writes:

The country is now split on Obama, because he is temperate, thoughtful and pragmatic, but his policies are almost all unpopular.

"Temperate, thoughtful and pragmatic" - above average. The president - and by proxy, Democrats - are from Lake Wobegon.

"His policies are almost all unpopular" - below average. But, but ... Obama - and by proxy, the Democrats - are from Lake Wobegon. No one from Lake Wobegon ever fails. Therefore the failure must be with those for whom the policies are unpopular.