Talk:Centrism
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American Democratic Party "Centrist"? I think most of the world would see it as right of centre. Scream!! (talk) 14:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- The description is very fuzzy, I'd say they still qualify in the most basic sense that they'd like to have a market-based economy without throwing the poor under the bus. America is a bit of a special case since both parties have moved steadily to the right over the last 20 years - Clinton's Democrats would have easily qualified as "centrist" even when compared to their European counterparts, whereas Obama is basically Reagan reborn. There are a lot of Democratic base voters who are deeply dissatisfied with his policies and whose preferences are much further left, though, so I'd say the party as a whole is still centrist. Röstigraben (talk) 14:44, 26 September 2011 (UTC)