"Before the 2000 recount had concluded, Bush campaign pollster Matt Dowd
wrote Karl Rove a game-changing memo in which Mr. Dowd marveled that the center
of the American electorate had disappeared. They had expected split-ticket
voters to account for about one-quarter of the electorate, but the figure was
closer to 6 percent."
Is the middle really gone, or is it just being ignored. I think of myself as being in the center on a number of issues. I am however to the left and to the right on a number of other issues. I think that other than the center being unreported on, when those in the center are reported on it is because they are siding with the left or the right. They are then cast into that side of the political spectrum.
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