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Clive Crook: The American Dream Needs Repair

Clive Crook | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Welfare, Children, US Poverty, Welfare Reform, Economy, Social Policies, Economic Mobility, Recession, Fiscal Policy, Education, Centrism, American Dream, Opportunity Society, Poor, Brookings Institution, Business News

Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking ...

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Centrism and Swing Voters

Mike Lux | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Ny-23, Wall Street, Centrism, Banking Industry, Swing Voters, Dede Scozzafava, Politics News
Mike Lux

In some ways, in some elections, at some times, centrism and swing voters are closely connected. But the connection is growing more and more tenuous.

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Revolution.com

Cedric Perrier | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blackberry, Left Wing, Twitter, Digg, Referendum, Obama, Iran, China, Tiananmen Square, Iphone, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Change in Regime, Centrism, Conservatives, Revolution, Tehran, Mao Zedong, Bono, Politics News
Cedric Perrier

In the last six months alone, we have begun to see the rise of the electronic electorate and with it a real prospect for the growth of Referendum politics.

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How DC Centrism Makes for Bad Politics and Bad Policy

Mike Lux | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2008 McCain Campaign, Centrism, Taxation, 2009 Obama Administration, Taxing Health Care Benefits, Politics News
Mike Lux

The "new, centrist compromise" of how to fund health care reform is not new and only centrist in the bizarre inside-the-Beltway world of what qualifies for centrist.

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Sonia, Who? Way Outta Center-Left Field

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Conservatives, Centrism, Judges, Liberals, Sonia Sotomayor, Religious Right, Obama Centrist, Federal Court, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

President Obama has chosen one tough, intellectually dazzling, judicially seasoned woman as his Supreme Court pick.

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The Audacity of Souter's Successor

Dave Astor | Posted 06.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Auto Industry, White House, Gop, Al Gore, President Obama, Oval Office, George W. Bush, Scotland, David Souter, Mostly Male Supreme Court, America, Disputed 2000 Election, American Civil Liberties Union, Susan Boyle, Three Branches of Government, Centrism, General Motors, Republican Party, Women Supreme Court Candidates, Hugo Chavez, Britain's Got Talent, Gm, Washington D.C., Congress, Barack Obama, Chrysler, Portuguese Water Dog, Corporations, Iraq War, Youtube, William Howard Taft, Republicans, Aclu, Mapquest, Comedy News
Dave Astor

There are many American women qualified to succeed Souter on the way-too-male court, but Barack Obama has his eye on a guy -- namely, Barack Obama!

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An Open Letter to The Nation's Open Letter to Barack Obama

Marissa Moss | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Barak Obama, John McCain, The Nation, Centrism, Breaking Politics News, Barack Obama Race, 2008 Election, Politics News
Marissa Moss

As much as Obama cannot and should not abandon his goals, neither can we. We want change we can believe in, but we also want change that can happen.

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Americans Move Left, New York Times Misses It

Jeff Cohen | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Opinon, Americans Move to the Middle, Centrism, Charles Blow, Opinion Polling, NY Times, Media News
Jeff Cohen

So the Times presents Gallup data showing a clear trend toward the left, and calls it a "move to the middle." Is the assumption that we were mostly right-wingers a few years ago?

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Bipartisan Partisanship -- Not An Oxymoron

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Negotiation, Triangulation, Purple States, Centrism, McCain Obama, Bipartisanship, Democrats, Genuine Politics, Politics News
Lanny Davis

McCain and Obama can can get our politics back into the fact-driven solutions business, listening to ideas from liberals and conservatives to pick among them based on what works, not what is ideologically correct.

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