From Paul Silver at Austin Centrist:
The ranks of independent voters is swelling while those of Ds and Rs is declining.
While the idea of a Third Party doesn’t seem to gain much traction, a Centrist Movement aimed at promoting Centrists of either party seems to be a path of far less resistance.
The definition of “Centrist” is becoming more clear: Trans-ideological, pragmatic, semi-secular,
An increasing number of prominent personalities are talking like Centrists: Barack Obama, Colin Powell, John Danforth, John Kerrey, Joe Lieberman, Mark Warner, Rudy Guiliani, Michael Bloomberg, Lincoln Chaffee, Michael Dewine, Arnold Schwarenegger, occasionally John McCain, Hillary Clinton, The NE Senators…
There are Centrist Groups that are ripe for trans-ideological collaboration: The DLC, Republican Mainstreet Partnership, It’s My Party Too, Dems for Joe…
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.