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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (25650)	7/31/2006 3:52:22 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541374

If the consensus was wildly different to my views, I would have to admit that I was off to one side or the other on that issue. Some examples - I would legalize soft drugs and prostitution. I am not religious. I thought Janet Jackson's nipple was hilarious, not a cause for hand wringing and so on. The way I look at it, if Congress is paralyzed by ugly partisanship and the approval rating for Congress is in the toilet, it is likely (though not certain) that more and more Americans are turned off by partisanship. If nearly half of Americans think Bush is too far to the right, it is unlikely that he occupies the center any longer, if he ever did. As for other issues, I could work my way down a list you provide and tell you where I think the center is on each one. Whether you could derive firm rules from that process, I don't know.