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Democratic Primaries

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)

6. Good article.

Reply to Indepatriot (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2020, 06:30 PM

Feb 2020

No candidate this century has won as the centrist/moderate candidate. People thought Trump would be easy to beat, so Dems went with a centrist who encouraged people to make sure Trump was the Republican nominee since he'd be easier to beat. Didn't work. Biden has run for President 3 times and has never won a State. Al Gore and Kerry, both moderate centrists lost to Bush. Obama beat the Centrists McCain and Romney.

Centrism doesn't work in this era.