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Originally posted by vermin
I disagree with this assumption. I think most centrists lean away from liberal ideals (want less government involvement in their lives, don't like massive tax increases) but are put off by the way Republicans are portrayed as pro-corporate fat cat, anti-environment, religious exteremists in the (very liberal) press.
Just an opinion.
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You might be right -- I admit it's my one of more shaky theorems (as if any are solid!), but in my experience self-identified centrists typically vote Democrat. So perhaps the assumption that they are liberals is incorrect, and I should say that they tend to vote Democrat (rather than be liberal). But I think my basic points still stand, that 1) there are very few "true" centrists -- those that do typically try to portray themselves as "above" partisan politics, and 2) this does the Democratic party a disfavor, as they expend a massive amount of resources trying to capture the vote of "centrists" that would have voted for them anyway.
-- Alvin