What is a 'moderate' Democrat anyway?

"I would say there's an energized moderate majority in the Democratic Party," Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy at centrist think tank Third Way, told NBC News."They're quiet compared to the activist voices on the left, and there's a difference between volume in decibels and volume in numbers.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a self-styled"extreme moderate" has played up his willingness to sit down with oil and gas companies executives to hammer out compromises on environmental policy. In a speech to the Delaware Democratic Party on Saturday night he delivered an impassioned defense of finding"consensus" in politics even as he boasted he had"the most progressive record of anybody running...anybody who would run"

"I do think there are distinctions among the candidates on the question of ambition," said Heather McGhee, president of the progressive think tank Demos. On Friday, O'Rourke backed away from his support for full single-payer health care, which he had endorsed in his race last year against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz."I'm no longer sure that's the fastest way for us to get there," O'Rourke told reporters, instead discussing a bill that would allow people to buy a public insurance plan or keep their employer-provided insurance.

While candidates have yet to directly clash often, there are signs a moderate challenger might distinguish himself or herself by critiquing rival plans as too large, too costly or too risky.

I know AOC thinks moderates are 'M'eh' Advances in science & medicine take a vision & incremental steps. Sometimes the vision has 2b readjusted due to results found. She loves to say moonshots. Newsflash: the process of getting to the moon was one of those advances described.

You really should stop trying to “umpire” this game.

No way on earth FDR would be elected today I know that much.

It looks like JoeBiden staceyabrams

I thought the Democrats were trying to win a election?

Yes, it has shifted far-left. I don't understand, why Democrats refuse to accept that Trump didn't win the election in 2016, the Democrats lost. If Trump the 'joke', 'imbecile', etc. didn't convince the DNC of this, nothing will....

Republicans and Democrats have gotten us to where this country is. I believe it's time for a new party to step up and be the true voice of the people, to create a better country/world that everybody can have a real chance to be happy in.

I have an answer to What is a moderate Democrat? The answer is: defunct.

Socialist freak

I was a moderate Democrat who often voted Republican (McCain despite SarahPalinUSA); I never voted for Democrat Rod Blagojevich in Illinois. But since Trump incites racism, bigotry, and ignorance, I have swung hard and fast to the left. What Trump represents is not who I am.

Breaking News: Dems are left of gop.

RUN BETO RUN! Tear Down That Wall El Paso! The CBBA (Cow Ball Buffers of America) are behind you all the way. If you don’t think so Beto you’re still tripping or just having flashbacks. Mow Down Them Kids you deep thinking 🤔 Poet, you!

No BetoORourke - fantasymurder

Not really America as a whole wants basic services that other industrialized countries have. You call it left bc radical right wing minority has been shaping the narrative but that us not what the centrist majority thinks. Here in the center we want a green new deal

The country has veered off the road to the right into a ditch. Just getting back into the slow lane again will mean that we never get to our destination. We need to put it into 3rd, hit the gas, get on the road, and then get back to the left carpool lane as quickly as possible.

And you guys are the mostly-not-trash network

This is delusional. It * seems * far left to represent the popular middle because the .GOP has moved so far right that they ran over Hitler and Mussolini.

Then Americans are tracking hard left...

America should be on alert. Do what's right, vote to KAG2020.

Is it really? Or perhaps it's just reflecting, finally, the true nature of the American Electorate which is somewhat left of center in its politics. Where are the stories about how tacking to the far right has made being a Republican a recipe for electoral disaster?

Someone who is not for the NGD or M4A, or paying reparations, or for free college for all, or anti Semitic or anti Muslim, one who does not create regime change & can work across the aisle - I think I should run for the Dem nomination to go up against trump.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

and by “…leaving some to wonder…“ you mean, only you. No one else is wondering this. Stop propagating the GOP narrative.

not really. not hard left.

A ModerateDemocrat takes the best ideas from the Left, from the Right, & from the Middle, then supports those. I'm a Moderate, Independent. I would support Joe Biden, or Corey Booker, if Booker's not a Socialist. Beto is a Socialist, & I will not knowing vote for a Socialist.

I’m an GOP hesitantly. But also a Trump-hater. It’s hard to fathom these far left liberals winning. As a Republican, there’s only so much I can deal with. Don’t make me abstain. Or I could just vote JohnKasich

Any approach is better than the lying,racist,xenophobic,misogynistic,Russia loving,DOJ/Media/Intel bashing,beholden to Putin environment and financial protection regulations killing administration! And stop normalizing Trump by asking “who can beat Trump” We’ve had it with Trump!

The further left they go, the more they will lose by.

It looks like PETE2020

stop having that far-right Trump propagandist Amy Tarkanian on your network. Thanks--civilized society

A moderate would win as long as those on the far left get out of attack mode. It is about the general election and the electoral college

Keep The Democratic Party going as far left as possible! 🤡 irrelevant

No it isn’t. Stop saying this. The election showed the strength of moderates. Biden is number 1 in Iowa. Stop saying this crap. Are you trying to create this position? If so, I’ll stop watching MSNBC

So, Robert ''Beto'' Francis O'Rourke (D-TX) (Multi-Millionaire), a fourth-generation IRISH-AMERICAN continues to Identity Grift the Hispanic name of 'Beto' he used for votes in Texas but now for the Presidency? Clever politician.

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