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shows this morning and one mantra keeps coming up. It's that if the candidate to emerge alienates the center he will lose to Bush in November. It seems to me that this is why Gore had such a narrow margin in 2000 and why BushCo was able to overturn the election with the help of the Supreme Court.
This was also why it was easy to recall Governor Davis in California. He was a centrist. Arnold too campaigned as a "liberal" conservative pandering to the center in a liberal state California although he is proving to be anything but a centrist.
So from past elections, it appears that the only candidates who win the center are Republicans who woo the right of center Republicans and Libertarians. It does not work for Democrats. Left of center seems to leave us lying in the dust.
My opinion is that we really need to ignore those centrists who will vote for Bush anyway and energize our base. Now, I know that Clinton was considered a centrist but Bill was an outstanding politician. Gore proved he could not step into his shoes and pull it off. Neither will anyone who panders to the center forgetting the true left wing Democrats, the working class, the union guy, the women and the emerging immigrant underclass. These are the people who voted for Democrats in the past and will do so in the future.
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