Most major church groups, from fundamentalist Southern Baptists to more moderate United Methodists, have come out forcefully against the lottery plan, hoping to make South Carolina the second Southern state in a year to reject a lottery, after Alabama last October.
Its heavy lobbying effort against the China trade measure has split the party and hindered its efforts to present a moderate, united front in this year's presidential elections.
Which is why conservatives and moderates, united in their desire for more details but divided on what those details should look like, are trying to find out who is going to get rolled in the Obamacare repeal and, more importantly, the replacement.
Current SAG president Alan Rosenberg has come out in opposition to the deal, while Ned Vaughn, leader of the moderate Unite for Strength group, told Variety that he favored a yes vote.
In any case, the unions will be under enormous pressure to get improvements in the new media deal, even with the election this week of Wells at the WGA and the likely election of Ken Howard, the moderate Unite for Strength candidate for SAG president.
Wilson, though, has been back to the archives in Coburg and reconnected with the tap-root of Victoria and Albert's plan for a united, moderate Germany.
Republicans and some moderate Democrats are united against a public option, calling it a first step to a government takeover of the insurance industry.
This fraying of the president-elect's coalition which united moderate hawks and fierce doves who were equally repelled by the arrogance and divisiveness of the Bush administration was evident in the widely divergent reactions to his picks for secretary of state (Hillary Clinton), secretary of defense (Robert Gates) and national security adviser (James Jones).
Acknowledging that some centrist parties were reluctant to hitch their wagon to his, Mr. Berlusconi said he was "ready to stand aside, to allow all moderates to unite in a single force that can face the left".
From Rome, my colleague John Hooper writes: Speaking about himself in the third person, the media tycoon told one of his own television channels: "Silvio Berlusconi has always said and continues to say that he is ready to stand aside to allow all moderates to unite in a single force that can face the left together".
The notion of an Israeli-moderate Arab coalition united to contain Iran is not only delusional, it would leave the Palestinian and Syrian-Lebanese tracks of the Arab-Israeli conflict unresolved and prospects for their resolution in free fall.
