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Why Democratic Politicians Are Constantly Triangulating (Yglesias)

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Edited on Mon Aug-01-11 03:50 PM by Recursion

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/01/284516/why-democratic-politicians-are-constantly-triangulating/

There really is a structural asymmetry here -- note that twice as many Independents classify themselves as conservative as do liberal. Also, while we can rant til the cows come home about how people are "actually" liberal, for all their alleged support in polls for liberal policies they keep electing people opposed to them. Note that Democrats are more likely to classify themselves as "moderate" than the population as a whole is.

I suppose there's a chicken-and-egg game here, but while it's tempting to say the Democratic leadership has been leading pulling voters to the right, I think, rather, they've been going where the votes are.

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