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Though Democrats hold a vast majority of seats in the legislature, the ideological make-up is strongly centrist. Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and House Speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn) are considered centrist, if not non-ideological, and liberals like Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) and Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline) have little influence on policy matters...
Barely had the votes been counted than Labor and Likud leaders began bargaining for support from the smaller parties. Labor could count on the centrist Shinui party and the leftist Citizens' Rights Movement, with three seats each, to reach 50. The Likud bloc knew it would be strengthened not only by Tehiya's five seats but by the two won by Morasha, a hard-line religious party, for a total of 48. Two predominantly Arab parties, the Communist Hadash and the new Jewish-Arab Progressive List for Peace, do not figure in any calculations, since neither Labor...
Bumpers is somewhat more centrist than Mondale-he has voted contrary to organized labor's wishes-but with an A.D.A. rating of 85, he would create no real ideological clash. Brown says Bumpers is able to explain his liberal positions "in such a way that he neutralizes the opposition, and the people come away saying, 'Hey, I never thought of it that way.' " Bumpers, an assertive member of the Energy Committee, is probably the most liberal Southerner in the Senate. He voted against the B-l bomber. He has supported human rights conditions on military...
...those who graduated in 1969 have had to struggle to come to a working agreement between their conscience and their materialism. Some, who did not agree with the direction the activists took, found themselves moving toward the right. After graduation, these conservatives (or more centrist liberals) seemed not to encounter conflicts between their ideals and their conception of the good life that were special to their generation...
When I say that, in my opinion, Duarte is not a leftist but rather a centrist, he pounds the table: "The political center is like an anus: it is round and it stinks." His scatological images delight his audiences. He turns to me with a challenge: "I'll publicly bet you that I'll win the elections. If I become President, the penalty is you have to write a novel about El Salvador. If I lose, I'll give you one colón." The clear implication is that a novel of mine is worth...