Reply #98: Not totally true: [View All]

[tameszu]

Medicare, abortion, gay rights, social security, AIDS funding have all been compromisees that have slowly edged left in the past 20 years.

Although if there's a countervailing structural force, I'd say it's that Dems are tightly packed in cities and therefore get a lot less bang for their voting buck, especially when it comes to the Senate and to the Presidency...