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...legislature was shutting down the state's "boot camps" for juvenile offenders, get-tough facilities Jeb had long supported, because a black teen had died in January after a beating by camp guards. Says Mitch Ceasar, head of Florida's Broward County Democratic Party, "This is still a very centrist state, and Jeb Bush is very often out of step with most Floridians and, I think, most Americans...
...some other spending program. And Democrats will put out a plan calling for increased spending on education and other domestic policy changes later this month. "If you look at the polling in the last few years, it points in the same direction," says Will Marshall, head of the centrist Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. "Even though the public is losing confidence in Republicans, they?re not sure what the Democrats have to offer. Filling that vacuum is critically important...
...performance, Blair led Labour's rise from a rump to a three-term party of government that boosted investment and raised standards in schools and hospitals. But Blair's political skill will complicate his party's future because it has motivated the opposition to copy New Labour's popular centrist policies. After years in the wilderness, the rival Tories have rallied behind Cameron, 39, who is stressing ecology, international development and the promotion of women and ethnic minorities instead of old Tory standards like immigrant bashing and tax cutting. A recent survey shows the Tories would beat Labour...
...Bush used his call for border security to appease those conservatives. But he also tried to cast himself as a reasonable centrist, fighting for what he called a "rational middle ground" between massive amnesty and rounding up more than 10 million illegal immigrants and deporting them. Neither idea is really on the table. (Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, jokes that Republicans had enough trouble moving 250,000 New Orleanians who wanted to be evacuated. "And we knew where they were," she gibes.) But Bush's attempt to thread the needle-coming up with a bill that's tough enough...
...next Democratic presidential candidate calls for a single payer healthcare system. With easy money from the insurance industry, the Republicans would go after the Democrat with guns blazing. Suddenly, the media is talking about healthcare, voters are seeing advertisements about healthcare, and the election starts to look completely different. Centrist Democrats in 2004 advised Kerry to stop talking about “social” issues so that the election could be fought on the bread and butter issues that Democrats have historically won on. But if Democrats want to talk about healthcare, they have to say something worth listening...