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Agnosticsherbet

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1. A "political moderate" is defined by the political center.

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Original post)

Wed Jan 27, 2016, 06:10 PM

Jan 2016

The center moves, so that makes pinning down tricky.

Moderates I know, generally dislike partisan politics and prefer the two sides to get along and govern. All the moderates I know in California are Decline to State when it comes to parties. When voting, they abhor both right and left extremism.

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What makes a "moderate"? Three definitions. [View all] Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2016 OP

A "political moderate" is defined by the political center. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2016 #1

"The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos"-Jim Hightower hobbit709 Jan 2016 #2

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