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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: GST who wrote (28892)9/20/2006 9:12:50 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (2) of 541067
 
The thread is about the political center, people who are not strongly affiliated with Republicans or Democrats. On most issues you can figure 30-35% always lean one way and 30-35% always lean the other.

What happens above those usual thresholds is the center. So if you can say that 60%+ support or oppose a position, the odds are good that most independents agree. Example - the view that the country is going in the wrong direction has been pegged around 60% for a long time. Bush lost the center a while back, that is clear.

Without some data to back up where people stand, the right claims that Bush is the center and anyone who doesn't support him is a lefty, and the left believes that anyone not pounding the drum for one of their crusades is a neocon righty.

Both views have no foundation when subjected to real scrutiny.

You can also find op-eds or speeches from well-known centrist figures to back up an argument. That is only one data point ina wider argument.

I just posted two polls that show US opinion on what happened in Lebanon is very divided. There is no centrist consensus for your strongly held view, whatever its merits.

Feel free to show me otherwise. This thread demands a certain standard of analysis and proof beyond people simply tossing out their own views.

Hope that helps.
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