Kind of explains why middle of the road pragmatists - like me - are feeling revulsion over what is happening in Washington. Taken together, there are four -- FOUR -- members of the ideological middle out of the 535 members of the House and Senate combined. That comes out to approximately .7 percent of the entire Congress. In 1982, by way of comparison, more than 75 percent of members of Congress were part of the ideological middle. So, in the last 30 years, the middle has lost more than 99 percent of its membership in Congress. And when the middle is represented by less than 1 percent of the entire Congress, its not an exaggeration to say the center is gone.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:28:29 +0000
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