The midterms could spell the end for America's lonely moderates
The midterms could spell the end for America's lonely moderates
- November 1, 2018
- Danielle Thomsen, poli sci, via The Atlantic, Nov. 1, 2018
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In the last midterm elections, in 2014, only about 4 percent of congressional candidates were ideologically moderate, according to data compiled by Danielle Thomsen, a political-science professor at UC Irvine, who categorized candidates by their campaign donors. The proportion of moderates on the campaign trail “has been steadily declining since the 1980s,” Thomsen told me. “It takes a lot of guts to run for Congress as a moderate in the current environment.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/midterms-2018-future-americas-lonely-moderates/574540/.
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