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Many commentators regard Obama as a centrist.
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Aren't the centrist papers engaging in hyperbole?
And then we live in this, you know, monogamy-centrist culture that just reinforces all that fear mentality.
How about a Centrist?
For a centrist, in an afternoon it's done.
Clinton wanted a centrist.
Popular centrist.
Looking at the way in which Democrats were defeated in 1988, or they were defeated in 1984, or they were defeated in 1980, there comes to be a sentiment among the Democrats that they have to adopt a position that is much more, uh, kind of, centrist.
I'm a Centrist.
She's guarantee your centrist vote in the election.
Actually, I'm a historical Republican, but I'm also a centrist anarchist.
And centrist?
What's centrist?
It's centrist!
You couldn't find a single warm-blooded centrist to put on the court?
A blander centrist, you will never meet.
Nationalist supporters take at least 10 days. For a centrist, in an afternoon it's done.
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But, whatever you do in the next few months to win the forthcoming parliamentary elections, please remember that the support that Kadima has received from the Israeli public derives precisely from the fact that it has taken a moderate centrist position.
That a small centrist party may now get the courts to postpone the election merely adds to the usual confusion.
Centrist parties that represented the middle classes and moderated the ideological extremes of left and right were pivotal.
On the contrary, the smaller centrist parties that scored a victory in the recent European Parliament elections are now demanding a return to full proportionality.
President Barack Obama, in particular, has been able to attract support as a liberal-left idealist and as a centrist-realist at the same time, which enabled him to win re-election in the face of a weak economy and an even weaker labor market.
The fact that in the weeks before the elections the candidates court undecided voters by trying to appear as centrist as possible should surprise no one.
Another possibility is to turn razor-thin majorities into one-sided governments that remain centrist in policy.
And domestic politics is being distorted by the inability of centrist politicians to address voters' concerns about the eurozone's economic policies and its democratic deficit.
If centrist parties remain on the sidelines, rather than protesting what has happened, the political extremists will gain further valuable territory.
Both countries held elections recently (for President in Ukraine, and parliament in Russia); both produced centrist governments.
The formation of a new Israeli government, one more centrist in its composition and support, is another positive development.
And the army has already become the purview of nationalistic and religious cadres, even without conscription of the ultra-orthodox - one of the centrist camp's demands in pressing for fairer national burden-sharing.
Indeed, having attracted leading figures from both Labor and Likud, Kadima is now established as the most successful centrist party in Israel's history.
From independence in 1948 until 1977, the Labor party was dominant, before giving way to an opposition coalition of conservative, nationalist, and centrist parties allied in the Likud bloc.
These voters chose him a year ago not only because he was not Sarkozy, but because he incarnated the values of the true left, even if his centrist moderation seemed a bad omen.
The centrist Liberal Democrats appeared to hold the balance of power, and stories circulated of how Heath was prepared to concede a reformed voting system.
Sanders appeals to the popular frustration with the compromises made by America's leaders, including the centrist Bill Clinton.
As in the 1930's, the failure of international cooperation has compounded centrist politicians' inability to respond adequately to their domestic constituents' economic, social, and cultural demands.
By holding on to a vision of Europe that has proven unviable, Europe's centrist elites are endangering the idea of a unified Europe itself.
If centrist elites do not prove themselves up to the task, those of the far right will gladly fill the vacuum, minus the moderation.
In this case, Berlusconi's forces could ally themselves with Pier Ferdinando Casini's centrist Catholic party, or work to form a coalition with their center-left adversary, the Democratic Party, led by Walter Veltroni.
But favorable economic indicators have made little difference to the standing of Cameron's Conservatives in opinion polls, and have done nothing to save their coalition partner, the centrist Liberal Democrats, from a severe slump.
Even if the left wing of the European left - like the most liberal of America's Democrats - voices concerns that Obama has selected a far too centrist cabinet, a classical form of anti-Americanism is bound to recede in Europe.
Always a politician in search of a platform to sustain his lust for power, Netanyahu is now forced to change course and form a centrist government.
But the real game changer was the declaration by Herzog and Livni, who leads the small centrist Hatnuah party, that their parties would run jointly in the elections.
Even Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, is now criticizing Netanyahu for alienating the US and has suggested that he would not rule out joining a centrist government.