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Making Sense: What Ed Kilgore Said

By Big Tent Democrat

Ed Kilgore:

[T]rue independents tend to vote against the party in power when the economy is bad, regardless of the perceived ideology or partisanship of the party in power. It happened in 2006 and it happened again in 2010. Arguing, as some have done, that the answer for Democrats is to "move to the center" and find some way to work with Republicans makes sense only if such steps contribute to an improvement in the performance of the economy. If they don't, then it's not the right direction to take, particularly if you consider the costs in terms of sacrificing progressive policy goals and making the Democratic elements of the electorate unhappy precisely on the eve of the cycle when they can be expected to return to the polls.

(Emphasis supplied.) What former DLCer Ed Kilgore said.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).