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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The death of the political middle, in 1 PowerPoint slide"
The death of the political middle, in 1 PowerPoint slideby Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/28/the-death-of-the-political-middle-in-1-powerpoint-slide/
"SNIP...........................
Looking for the political middle in Congress? Its gone.
Check out this amazing chart courtesy of Bill McInturff of GOP polling firm Public Opinion Strategies that uses National Journals vote ratings to illustrate the decline and near-disappearance of the political middle over the past three decades.
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In 1982, there were 344 Members whose voting records fell somewhere between the most conservative voting Democrat and the most liberal voting Republican in the House. Thirty years later, there were 11. That means that in 1982 the centrists or at least those who by voting record were somewhere near the middle of their respective parties comprised 79 percent of the House. In 2012 they made up 2.5 percent of the House. So, yeah.
..............................SNIP"
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"The death of the political middle, in 1 PowerPoint slide" (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2013
OP
Zactly! The've moved way further right in the last several decades. The 11 should represent the
adirondacker
Oct 2013
#2
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Graphic suggests Dems have been getting more liberal. Clearly not true.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)2. Zactly! The've moved way further right in the last several decades. The 11 should represent the
liberals left in the party.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)3. The whole blue bar
needs to slide quite a ways to the right.