the US electorate is composed of 15% liberal, 29% moderates, 34% conservative, and most dangerous of all 16% progressive.
This makes the split 31 - 34. Therefore campaigns are directed at, and rest on the shoulders of the 29% moderate. (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/11/halpin-teixeria-progressive-study/)

Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Oh and fyi the typical moderate or center platform as its sometimes called during US political debates is no where near the hard anything of even the most left or right wing governments by eaither US, European, or any other contemporary political standards, nor by academic measurment systems that do not follow coloquial politically assigned values to my knowledge. (Reds vs Whites etc)