There’s a near-consensus among political writers left, right and center that No Labels, the new anti-partisanship group started by political consultants Nancy Jacobson and Mark McKinnon, leans to the left. The atmosphere in the room where the No Labels rollout was held Monday — the Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University’s Alfred Lerner Hall in New York — just felt lefty. The No Labels people did and said things that Democrats do and say and that Republicans don’t do and say. So here are seven signs — some significant, others just little clues that would have no great importance by themselves — that suggest the true political leaning of the new, supposedly centrist organization.

1) The “Woodstock of democracy.”  Mark McKinnon — you may remember him as the adviser who quit the John McCain campaign in May 2008 because “I just don’t want to work against an Obama presidency” — delivered opening remarks at the event.  “Welcome to our little Woodstock of democracy,” he said.  The audience welcomed his comparison, but it’s not an image many Republicans would have appreciated.