As Labour wins radical votes, it risks losing moderate votes to the Tories: 2% went that way last time.
In 2014 the ANC could also lose moderate voters to Agang, another new party, led by Mamphele Ramphela, a veteran of the fight against apartheid.
When Boehner tries to make the bill extreme enough to appease the Tea Party hardliners, he loses moderate votes.
Massive research, on which the National Institutes of Health has easily spent $100 million over the past decade, has shown again and again and again that educating and coaching people with high blood sugar to start moderate exercise and lose moderate amounts of weight is TWICE as EFFECTIVE as standard medication in preventing them from developing out right diabetes: this education is also cheap.
The lesson that the Republican establishment drew from upstate New York was not to shun the movement, for fear of losing moderates, but to court it (the embattled Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele recently used teacups as props during a speech) or get out of its way, as evidenced by last week's special election in Massachusetts.
Though ninety per cent of Republicans now say that they'll vote for Romney, he remains distrusted by conservatives, and every move he might make to appease them (such as muzzling a spokesman, Richard Grenell, for being gay) will risk losing moderates.
But it remains doubtful that the legislative fixes in play can fundamentally change the dynamic McConnell has faced all along: If he gives in to conservatives, he loses moderates, and if he doesn't give conservatives the changes they want, he may lose them ― while losing moderates anyway.
I recall election night in 2004, when George W. Bush was declared the winner, and thinking that the American people had just lost a moderate Supreme Court.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Shabab rebels, who control most of Somalia with allied Islamist groups, on Saturday attacked a town lost to moderate Islamists about a year ago.
