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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
"Barack Obama will not govern from the "center right", but he will govern from the "center". That's not because he is "moving to the center". It's because the center of American politics has changed. It has moved where the American people are."
the full argument, of course, reads better, as it explains the shift in what is this new "center".
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I predict that Obama will begin in the center as he is now and will steadily move to the left as the administration moves on. This is what I was referring to in learning the mistake of the Clinton presidency which came out the gate advocating strong liberal policies which were either shut down (his health care plan) or backfired (gay rights in the military, NAFTA). Was it no wonder the republicans went for his jugular his second term over Monica Lewinsky?