Indian politics rewards consensus-building centrists, not polarizing leaders who repel and attract voters in equal measure.
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It is true that both are, broadly speaking, centrists, but important distinctions are emerging.
In Congress, there are fewer centrists in either party who are willing to compromise.
For him to do that, he presumably have to win over centrists and independent voters.
Left-wing Democrats have long bashed both trade and business, while the Clintonite centrists have embraced both.
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The New Democrats, the centrists of the party to which Mr Gore belongs, loved it.
It is a heartening sign of centrists and libertarians breaking the social conservative stranglehold on the GOP.
Another clear result from the two-day elections was the wan showing by Mr. Monti's alliance of centrists.
Another clear result from the two-day elections was the disappointing performance of Mr. Monti's alliance of centrists.
The groups and parties that are part of this front include old and new parties, liberal, centrists and socialists.
The public associates it with gridlock, and is happiest when centrists in each party make pacts with each other.
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Meanwhile, in Congress, the few remaining pragmatic Republican centrists, like Senator Richard Lugar, are being hunted down by tea-party activists.
His trick was to make the case for his fiscal conservatism while also reassuring centrists that he wasn't an ideologue.
Persistently sluggish job growth and stagnant real wages have also caused many centrists to worry about the consequences of globalisation.
Both are centrists, though Mr Firestone will win more liberal votes and Mr Steel more votes of the religious right.
Netanyahu's statement indicates that he might try to attract centrists into a government coalition rather than form a hard-right bloc.
Correspondents says Mr Netanyahu's likeliest allies are other right-wing and religious groups, although he may also need the support of centrists.
Centrists will likely view the anger on both sides as an indication that a fair and reasonable compromise has been accomplished.
Policy goals aside, the GOP must contend with some internal party conflicts that boiled over with the Specter defection: centrists versus conservatives.
Until the Republican Party hemorrhages more and more centrists, leaders will not wake up to the damage they're doing to themselves and the party.
In the Dutch elections this month centrists may have made a comeback, but often by adopting a tough line on bail-outs for troubled countries.
Mr Dean appeals to many of the same angry centrists who supported Mr Hart in 1984, Ross Perot in 1992 and John McCain in 2000.
The Democratic newcomers were lucky that several established Republican governors, including Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin and John Engler in Michigan (both engaging centrists), stepped down.
She and other centrists were working to tap into the disaffected Israelis who took to the Tel Aviv streets in 2011 to protest frustrating economic conditions.
But the centrists and leftists attracted waves of voters displeased with, among other things, Israel's high cost of living, and more supportive of talks with Palestinians.
He is one of the centrists whom Mr Bush will need if he is to work across party lines, so this ritual hazing hardly boded well.
She and other centrists were working to tap into the disaffected Israelis who took to the streets in Tel Aviv in 2011 to protest frustrating economic conditions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to lead the new government, but has emerged from the election in a weakened position, following a surprisingly strong showing by centrists.
Mr Netanyahu is now desperately trying to dissuade the popular minister of defence, Yitzhak Mordechai, and the lone woman in his cabinet, Limor Livnat, from joining the centrists.
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