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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: thames_sider who wrote (94051)	11/5/2008 1:43:02 PM
From: Lane3	of 541658

It's still heavily partisan, with comments like "the process of getting to 50.1% for a figure of the left is more complex and involves more concerted efforts at concealment and dissimulation," which are hardly neutral. I noticed that paragraph, too. I would have liked to see more detail. I don't know what was intended--why it would be more complex--so I can't judge whether it was partisan or not. As for being neutral, it would depend on what the complexities are. Certainly some concealment and dissimulation would be required by either side to win over the center. You have to hide the warty fringes. It didn't say that the left or Obama was more deceptive or unduly deceptive, only that the left would have greater need for deception due to this alleged complexity. I evidently did not see McCain's positioning as particularly moderate or centrist. Nor did I. He jerked right when the uninspired base lost interest. But he did start out center right. He is naturally center right. He's not naturally a winger. Except for the hawk part, he's pretty centrist. So I imagine that's what the article had in mind--his more centrist beginnings. Regardless of whether he fit the Beltway Pundid model , he definitely didn't fit the Rovian one--building the base and then shifting gears enough to pull in some centrists. It'd have been very close, I think, and he might have won. I don't think so. He realized that wouldn't work. He had problems with his age and vitality, his temperament, and with Bush. Centrists would never have gravitated to him in sufficient numbers.

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