All three Democratic presidential losses in the Eighties were caused by centrism.

[Ken Burch]

53. Yeah, he bragged about it, but it didn't gain him votes.

As to NAFTA, Clinton and the Right had the exact same position...the voters weren't offered a choice on that one(just as they weren't offered a choice, until almost the end of the campaign, on staying in Vietnam or not in the fall 1968 campaign-the overwhelming majority who voted for peace in the Dem presidential primaries was disregarded in the UnDemocratic National Convention at Chicago).

You can't assume that voters liked everything somebody says just because they voted for him after she or he said it. If HRC is our nominee, for example, most Dems and I'd say most voters won't be supporting her foreign policy hawkishness.

The nation didn't cheer Clinton's decision to throw gays under the bus. Nor did they move to his standard because he signed the welfare "reform" bill(only Republicans wanted that damn thing passed).

Those "Christian" groups all endorsed and voted for Dole.

The ONLY votes Clinton got in '92 OR '96 were from people who didn't hate gays, progressives, unions, and the Rainbow.

All the "Reagan Dems" voted GOP that year anyway.

And you know it.