Partisans from both sides were most likely to consume news from outlets that were estimated to be relatively centrist, such as network morning shows and evening news broadcasts.
A subset of these people became more motivated to go to the polls and, in part because the news coverage they were exposed to was relatively centrist, their votes contributed to less-partisan elections during this time period.
But it's also because the Democratic Party that Obama came out of was relatively centrist.
For example, the Scottish National Party SNPP) is traditionally on the economic left and culturally liberal, the Catalonian Convergencia i Unio (CiU) is relatively centrist in economic and cultural terms, and the Belgian Vlaams Belang is on the economic right and culturally conservative.
He also gave an audition of sorts to one of the people who has been mentioned as a potential running mate, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, the 45-year-old freshman who, like Mr. Gore, is the relatively centrist son of a relatively liberal senator and who grew up mostly in Washington.
Parties in the diagonal from the bottom left to the top right are expected to take relatively centrist positions on decentralization.
For example, it is often claimed that policymaking, even during relatively centrist administrations, was complicated enormously by the presence of a populist party demanding government intervention.
Gray, a relatively centrist Democrat who was elected to the council in November to represent Ward 7, is a potential ally for the mayor from an ideological standpoint.
Neither is the framework, based on the relatively centrist Senate version of the bill, aimed at pleasing liberals; it contains no public option or national insurance exchange.
At a time when the Democratic Party is moving leftward, away from Bill Clinton's relatively centrist economic outlook, what explains the growth in the ranks of super-rich liberals?
