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Romney: Tea Party Is Good For Washington

AP | By STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 10.16.2011 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Conservatives, Moderates, Mitt Romney 2012, Gop Primary 2012, Washington, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Romney Tea Party, Democratic Party, Tea Party, Mitt Romney Tea Party, GOP Candidates, Politics News

MERRIMACK, N.H. -- Mitt Romney says the tea party is good for Washington. The Republican presidential contender's comments come as the Democratic Par...

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Political Parties Restrict Americans' Freedom

Dinkar Jain | Posted 08.08.2011 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Taxes, Minorities, Romney, Obama, Bipartisan, Democrats, Business, Gingrich, Affirmative Action, Stem Cell Research, Abortion, Gay Rights, Bipartisanship, Medicare, Tax, Republicans, Deficit, Congress, Lobbying, Politicians, Political Divide, Usa, America, American Politics, Liberty, Independents, Moderates, Freedom, Presidential Election, Politics News
Dinkar Jain

Consider three Americans: a gay businessman who wants to lower taxes; a scientist who teaches evolution but opposes amnesty for the illegal; an agnost...

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Beyond Stereotypes Of 'Conservative' And 'Liberal' Christianity

John Backman | Posted 07.14.2011 | Religion

Read More: Catholic Church, Scripture, Abortion, Left Wing, Culture Wars, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberals, Bible, Christianity, Right Wing, Evangelicals, Progressive Christianity, Conservative Christians, Religion News
John Backman

Amid all the hostility among people of faith, many of us reserve our most potent venom for people of our own faith: those who disagree with us, that is.

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Immigration North of the Border

Hazeen Ashby | Posted 07.04.2011 | Politics

Read More: Global Magnet, Economy, Jobs, Economic Growth, Immigration, Canada, SB 1070 Law, Arizona, Democrats, Legal Status, Moderates, DREAM Act, Minutemen, Tea Party, Immigration Policy, Republicans, Senator Orrin Hatch, Mexiso, Politics News
Hazeen Ashby

Rather than the American conservative mantra that one more immigrant means one less American job, Canada has pegged immigration to economic growth and has attempted to make the nation a global magnet for talent.

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Elise Foley

Dems Form Group To Cut Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Mark Udall, Environmental Reform, Balanced Budget Amendment, Kay Hagan, Budget Cuts, Moderates, Senate Democrats, Moderate Democrats, Senate Moderates, Education Reform, Third Way, Tom Carper, 112th Congress, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As tension builds over compromise between the GOP-led House and Democrat-led Senate, Democratic Sens. Tom Carper, Mark Udall and Kay Hag...

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Draft Moderate Manifesto Part 1

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Centrist, Progressives, Elections 2012, Moderation, Moderate Democrats, Progressive Politics, No Labels, Progressive Policy Institute, Moderate Republicans, Obama Centrist, George Lakeoff, Centrism, Centrist Democrats, Moderates, David Brooks, Paul Krugman, Wisconsin Protests, Third Way, President Obama, Politics News
Sheri and Allan Rivlin

In election after election, the same opportunity remains unrealized -- the possibility that either extreme could unite with the center to exclude the most extreme policies of the other.

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Congressional Democrats Should Take a Hint From Obama

Ronnie Shows | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Congress, Congressional Democrats, 2012 Election, Moderates, President Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Ronnie Shows

The president, by reaching out to business, is helping get millions of Americans back to work and at the same time increasing his chances of being elected to a second-term in the White House.

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Paul Krugman's Two Political Moralities Leave Out the Majority of Americans and Even Our Elected Leaders

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Conservatives, Moderates, Liberals, President Obama, Morality, Paul Krugman, Gabrielle Giffords, Political Philosophy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sheri and Allan Rivlin

Krugman is pessimistic that calls for greater civility in political discourse will be met with success because, in his view, there are two sides to the debate that do not share a common morality.

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Obama Can Win by Securing the Middle

Ronnie Shows | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Start Treaty, Jobs, House of Representatives, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Moderates, Economy, Republicans, For-Profit Colleges, Politics News
Ronnie Shows

President Obama's move to the political middle, by extending Bush tax cuts and unemployment insurance for millions of out of work Americans, offers his best hope for re-election in 2012.

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111th Congress Ends With Bang, Not Whimper

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: 111th Congress, Wealthy, President Obama, Lame Duck Congress, Public Opinion, Poll, Democratic, Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Republican, Dadt, Tax Cut, Press Conference, Dont Ask Dont Tell, House, Plum Line, Budget, Shellacking, Democrat, Congress, Lame Duck, Lindsey Graham, Democrats, Greg Sargent, Barack Obama, Independents, Midterm, Tax, Moderates, Graham, Senate, New Start, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pundits are now beginning to say Obama is on a comeback, which is a stunning turnaround from less than two months ago, when the president sheepishly began using the word "shellacking" for the midterm results.

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Why Hyper-Partisans Have no Credibility on Deficit Reduction

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Hyper-Partisans, Deficit, Deficit Commission, Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles, Federal Budget Deficit, Moderates, Fiscal Policy, Bowles-Simpson, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Partisanship, Politics News
Alex Becker

While they differ ideologically, extreme conservatives and extreme liberals share the same basic philosophy about the nature of fiscal policy. It is framed as a false choice between two extremes.

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Center Folds

Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Fdr, Ronald Reagan, Conservatives, Midterm Elections, Moderates, Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News
Dr. Philip Neches

The collective Center took what President Obama characterized as a "shellacking" in the 2010 midterm elections. The carnage at the center hit both s...

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Are We Bound for a Political Explosion?

David Helfenbein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Midterms, Political Polarization, Democrats, Moderates, Tea Party, Republicans, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Politics News
David Helfenbein

From 2006-2008, I studied political polarization in great detail at the University of Pennsylvania. My final research project can be found online here...

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Whither Jon Stewart?

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Washington DC, Rally to Restore Sanity, Proposition 19, Bradley Manning, America, Jon Stewart, Moderates, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Politics News
Adam Chandler

More necessary than a rally is a counterweight to the political extremism so commonly lent a media platform. Otherwise, the middle is just a collection of witty slogans and cartoon thought-bubbles.

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Agents of Change? We Recommend It

Robert Cramer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Democrats 2010, Democrats, Moderates, 2010 Elections, Blue Dog Democrats, Robert Cramer, Politics News
Robert Cramer

Based on my experience from the 1994 cycle and based on the poll of independents that we did, I offer these suggestions to those surviving Blue Dogs and other conservative Democrats that come back into Congress licking their severe wounds.

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What Happened in New Jersey: A Tragedy in New Media

David Helfenbein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Social Media, Dr. Phil, Twitter, Perez Hilton, Liberals, Moderates, Bullying, Suicide, New Media, Teen Bullying, Facebook, Tyler Clementi, Livestream, Technology News
David Helfenbein

I'm a firm believer in the benefits of social media. But this is not to say that social media does not have its issues. Take three young adults in New Jersey and three social media platforms and I think you all know what I mean.

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Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Terry Jones, Communism, Europe, New York City Hall, Evil in America, Cultural Revolution, Islamophobia, Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran, Pakistan, Fascism, 9/11, Anti-Islamic, Prophet Mohammad, Canada, Donahue Show, Worldview, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Martin Niemoller, E-Filled Book., Moderates, Theology, Muslim, Gainesville, Manhattan, Fran Ingram, Jim Luce, World Trade Center Mosque, Atheism, Liberals, Florida, Germany, Islam Is of the Devil, Fundamentalist Mindset, Evil, United States, Islam Is Evil, Devil, God, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Burn Koran, Dove World Outreach Center, Nazism, Hatred, Killing Fields, U.S. Fundamentalist Group, Christianity, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Aclu, Buddhism, Hinduism, Extremism, World News
Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

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Mosque Debate Reminds Us of Uncomfortable Nature of Freedom

Morris W. O'Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Gop, Ground Zero Mosque, Tea Party, Midterm Elections, Rush Limbaugh, Moderates, Sean Hannity, 9/11, Keith Olbermann, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News
Morris W. O'Kelly

Freedom is working when it is most "uncomfortable," and the U.S. Constitution is at its best when it's tremendously inconvenient. Don't confuse something being uncomfortable with something being unfair.

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The Sound of Silence

Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Politics, Democracy, Media, Politicians, Moderates, Politics News
Terry Newell

The far right, the far left and special interest groups are well-funded, articulate, and exercise their democratic rights to shape public opinion. The rest of us either can't find our voice or can't get heard.

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Liberal Voting Record Released: 2009 Mirrors 1961

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Liberal, Voting Record, Conservatives, Political Analysis, Moderates, Senate, Politics News
Michael J. Wilson

In politics, just like in baseball, you really do need a scorecard to get the most out of the exercise.

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Focus on the Mission: Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Rachel Laser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Lesbian, George W. Bush, Sexual Orientation, Admiral Mike Mullen, Iraq, Congress, Gay, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Military, Independents, Robert Gates, Moderates, Americans, Afghanistan, Saxby Chambliss, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Republicans, Politics News
Rachel Laser

They serve in Iraq. They fight in Afghanistan. Their names are etched in marble at Arlington National Cemetery. And three out of four Americans believe they shouldn't be forced to lie to serve the country.

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Politics: The Reason to Reason

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Extremists, Progressive Movement, Conservatives, Moderates, Politics News
Bob Franken

Unless those in the middle rise up and assert themselves we will all continue to have one thing in common. There is but one word for that: "Disgust."

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All in on Health Reform

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Public Option, Liberals, President Obama, Democrats, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Blair House, Moderates, Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Health Care, Republican Party, Health Care Summit, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News
Will Marshall

There's something poignant about Obama's attempts to reason with Republicans. As the health summit showed, they haven't worked, but a frustrated public will probably appreciate the effort anyway.

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Evan Bayh's Retirement Signals Disappearance Of Moderate Middle In Congress

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Moderates, Bayh, Bipartisanship, Bayh Retirement, Moderates Congress, Moderate Democrats, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growi...

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Evan Bayh Packs It In

Will Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Senator Evan Bayh, Evan Bayh, Political Polarization, Congress, Bipartisanship, Moderates, Progressives, Indiana, Indiana Senate, Senate, 2010 Elections, Senate Races, Elections 2010, Politics News
Will Marshall

Bayh's decision to pack it in, after 12 years, is a loss to his party, and even more to his country. Most of all, it's a withering rebuke to Congress, which seems to have lost the knack for governing.

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