{"id":45329,"date":"2014-09-17T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/is-the-moderate-voter-a-myth.html"},"modified":"2014-09-18T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:52:50","slug":"is-the-moderate-voter-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/is-the-moderate-voter-a-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the Moderate Voter a myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authors here argue that the &quot;moderate&quot; label is often an &quot;average&quot; of extreme positions. Add to accepting the average as meaning zero sigmas  my own idea that people tend to think of <i>themselves<\/i> as moderate (except for &quot;Inflexible on principle&quot; extremists on both ends of the spectrum), and you belie the idea that there are a flock of middle-of-the-road, calm, careful, centrists that can be appealed to.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to think that they are there. But are they, really?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/8\/5878293\/lets-stop-using-the-word-moderate'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/h9e8YfAp8qP45jzhlQuTExQwo3Jv9YwINoud5tW_Ut9lMYHCOvPW8RHky_E_mjGYhN8KPc-NYFrabVxn-HBIpXpVc8St_7KOEW7Noybeh1u8nHzxMBqv3PqahIhpHnA0TmDW4sm2Q1FUmrLC7zCSQnnkapC7zlMUs_dpPQ=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/7\/8\/5878293\/lets-stop-using-the-word-moderate'>Moderate voters are a myth<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to stop using the word &#8220;moderate.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/AD1mxL7kNAT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors here argue that the &quot;moderate&quot; label is often an &quot;average&quot; of extreme positions. Add to accepting the average as meaning zero sigmas my own idea that people tend to think of themselves as moderate (except for &quot;Inflexible on principle&quot; extremists on both ends of the spectrum), and you belie the idea that there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/is-the-moderate-voter-a-myth.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is the Moderate Voter a myth?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,533],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-demographics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130971,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/obama-the-moderate-republican.html","url_meta":{"origin":45329,"position":0},"title":"Obama, the Moderate Republican","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jul-16 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's probably too late for all those folk who are convinced that Obama is some sort of deranged crypto-Commie Leveler who wants to put everyone in work camps and seek some sort of Trotskyite dream. But, really, read this. This could be GHW Bush, or Ford, or Nixon, or Eisenhower.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/obama-moderate-republican.html","url_meta":{"origin":45329,"position":1},"title":"Obama: Moderate Republican","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Dec-12 1:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yup. Pretty much.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsOh look. Just what I've been saying all along.\u00a0 Embedded Link Obama: \u201cIn The 1980\u2032s I Would Be Considered A Moderate Republican\u201d Speaking to Univision in Miami, the president responded to the criticism that some view him as a socialist. 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