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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
The problem is we don't have politicians that represent the views of the people anymore. Poll after poll show that the majority of Americans are moderates regardless of their political affiliation yet the people keep electing these far left/right radicals to office. Moderate Repubs and Blue Dog Democrats should be the majority in Washington yet their kinds are going extinct it seems.
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The problem is that it seems like it's only those on the far left or far right that are motivated to vote in primaries. So even if a ton of moderates vote in the general election, the candidates coming out of the primaries are already skewed to the sides.
Although I'd make the argument that Obama's actually a lot closer to the center (even right of center sometimes) than people like to acknowledge because it doesn't play into the Socialist Muslim Immigrant narrative.
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