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To: Neeka who wrote (85242)	11/10/2004 7:36:31 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 793804

He said that the election wasn't won by the right or the left but the center, and that is where the dems need to go if they want to win elections. I don't know that they need to move to the center but they need to appeal to the center. Unless we have some dramatic realignment, it seems we will be polarized for some time. This can push the platforms further apart as each side tries to energize its core. Cores are inherently extreme. So how do you get the middle? One way is to make one of the extremes so scary that the middle turns out on election day to vote against the other side. If you move to the middle as Bayh suggested, you risk losing the vigor of your core. It seems to me what the left needs to do is reevaluate it's message and see if it still makes sense, drop whatever doesn't make sense, and then package the rest in a way that they can explain it to those not predisposed to believe it, the middle. That way they could keep their core plus make gains in the middle. The big "if" in this is whether or not the liberal message makes sense. The sense of it is sure not apparent to me. It seems tired and disconnected to me. I do the same thing with lefties as I often do here, which is ask people to explain their mantras. I don't get any more answers from the lefties than I do here. I find cognitive dissonance and hostility to what is perceived as a challenge. That's because people believe rather than think, I have concluded. Beliefs aren't explainable. Plus they seem so obviously "true" to those who hold them. I'd like to see the liberals turn their approach into a coherent whole and then tell us how it makes sense and why we should adopt it. If they can. If they can't, then they should assemble a package of positions somewhere near the middle and go with that.

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