Tea Partiers on Twitter were still tweeting about immigration, but it appears that more moderate, mainstream tweeters and more conservative tweeters had converged into a single cluster.
WHAT idea could unite in opposition the extreme right, the extreme left and a good part of the moderate mainstream, both left and right?
George W. Bush is going to be the next president, and he's a moderate, mainstream Republican," said Mr. Dole, "and I think there will be plenty that Bob Franks will be able to do".
Moderate, mainstream candidates have won an overwhelming victory, and the only surprise about this outcome was that anyone in the press was surprised by it.
During run-offs, they say, the Muslim Brothers bought the support of candidates who were eliminated in the first round, asking for their supporters' votes in exchange for "compensating" them for the cost of their failed campaigns.The Brothers, who have longer political experience and are closer to Egypt's moderate mainstream, say the Salafists are guilty of even worse.
He stands here and tells us that he's a moderate, mainstream, independent member of Congress.
The People's Party has only a limited following among Pashtuns, but if Bhutto and Musharraf could construct an alignment of secular-leaning leaders and political formations, the theory went, they might strengthen the country's moderate mainstream, provide cover in the West for the Army's unpopular counterinsurgency campaign, and create new pathways for pacifying Taliban sympathizers.
Wooldridge's views were moderate, mainstream.
"The question for us is, how we can separate those extremists from the moderate mainstream majority?" he said.
But while that puts the moderate mainstream on par with the Islamists in communications terms, we should not get carried away.
