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...said. The governor also emphasized fiscal responsibility in his speech. Elected in 2001, Warner has since stabilized Virginia’s fiscal deficits and started the Virginia Health Care Foundation, which provides health care to thousands of Virginians. Despite his speech’s centrist overtones, he took care to include progressive themes. “Being part of the sensible center does not mean that we have to get rid of our progressive ideals,” he said. Warner came to campus as a guest of IOP Fellow Adam Nagourney, the national political reporter at the New York...
...Democrat. Janet Napolitano likes the steeps. A former mountain climber who has hiked the Himalayas and summited Mount Kilimanjaro, Napolitano, 47, has pulled herself to the top job in Arizona--and many think she hasn't stopped climbing yet. Positioning herself as a no-nonsense, pro-business centrist, she has worked outside party lines since coming to office in January 2003 to re-energize a state that, under her predecessors, was marked by recession and scandal...
...free and open to all. Besides, argues Confalonieri, political satire is just harmless fun: "Television is about entertainment. It's not the media who decides who wins elections; the voters judge the candidates on what they've done." Maybe. But it can't be a good sign if a centrist like Celentano feels the need to take the Prime Minister on. Benigni had some advice for Berlusconi on Thursday night: "You can become a comedian. Then you can really say anything you want." Celentano would probably even give him airtime, as long as his opponents...
...appeal to swing voters. Elaine C. Kamarck, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and William A. Galston, the director of the University of Maryland’s Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, served in the Clinton White House and helped frame his centrist campaign approach with their 1989 study, “The Politics of Evasion.”In their current study, “The Politics of Polarization,” Galston and Kamarck urge the Democrats to focus on winning moderates’ votes.“[The study] is written...
...hankering for smaller government and lower taxes, Tories don't know what to sell the voters. Labour has proclaimed tough positions on the Conservatives' natural issues of crime, immigration and terror, and has co-opted Tory ideas of using private companies for public services. Lacking a distinctive parcel of centrist real estate, the Tories have bickered for years over the encroaching reach of Europe, which may worry some swing voters but not enough for them to vote Tory. The Blair years, says David Curry, an M.P. from one of the party's rare northern seats, have turned the Conservative Party...