2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stop the train! Am I reading this right? [View all]DhhD
(4,695 posts)Hillary Clinton and her backers.
Triangulation, as I understand it, is an intentional political strategy to win favor with swing voters by pushing off the left. Thats not what the president is doing, and thats not our strategy, Pfeiffer wrote POLITICO in an e-mail. We want to convince all Democrats to support this [tax] deal because we think it is good for the economy and good for the middle and working class.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/the-dirtiest-word-in-politics-046218#ixzz3q9gaWvn1
and
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_hasbeen/2009/03/yes_he_is.html
and shifting away from the Left:
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