Have you considered that you might just be frankly right wing and intentionally misplacing the center? Conveniently that would also explain why you feel obligated to write “port side” like there was some kind of conspiracy against saying left leaning.
There was a blatant "port list" to the results.
To find some commentary by a nominally centrist voice, I had to search on a blog.
More pure mechanism, less bias, please.