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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (25474)	8/1/2006 3:21:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 542068

In some ways it's a call for a centrist Rep Party and harking back to heritage Dean thinks is actually available. Four main things that could happen when a party moves to the center might be labeled 1 - Partisan advantage 2 - Bipartisan progress 3 - Partisan disadvantage 4 - Unilateral concession. Partisan advantage would be when a party moves to the center and it helps them get support from the middle and defeat the other party. Bipartisan progress (which is I think what Dale is looking for) would be when the move to the center allows a realistic agenda to be achieved, probably with some help from moderates in the other party (whether they operate in a bipartisan way, or whether they shift to the party that moderated its positions). There might also be some hope that this moderation might reduce partisan conflict. Whether or not the new agenda would be a positive thing could of course be debated, but at least this result allows for the possibility of some wide spread benefit from a "move to the center". Partisan disadvantage would be when a party moves the center, loses support from its core, and doesn't gain enough from moderates to make up for it. Unilateral concession would be when a party moves to the center, and only succeeds in moving the debate to where its new more moderate position is the starting point, and the new middle recedes further from the original political ideas of the party. If the continuum was 1 to 10, you wind up having moved from one side arguing 2 and the other 9, to one side arguing 1 and the other 6, or something like that. The middle shifts from 5.5 to 3.5, and the debate continues from there. Tim

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