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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Bridge Player who wrote (59160)	4/14/2008 3:16:21 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 542967

IMO McCain is right of center, although pretty far left of many hard-line conservatives, Hillary is left of center although right of many hard-line leftists, and Obama is far left of Hillary. In fact, the National Journal rates his 2007 voting record in the Senate as the most liberal. Hillary ranks as 16th most liberal. If you are going to quote the National Journal ratings, you might wish to take a look at how they made the rankings. I'm told it's quite odd. As for Obama being "far left" of Clinton, it ain't so. They are both reasonably well situated in the moderate wing of the Dem party. He's a bit left of her because he refuses to affiliate with the DLC. But there are specific policy issues on which folk who think the left/right distinction makes sense, would place her to his left. Health insurance would certainly be one. I just don't find these particular distinctions very helpful (though I do use them, on occasion). We don't really have a serious left in this country, not, at least, in the way there is a left in Europe.

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