The center determines who governs; that is the only national mandate; Dems and GOP - ignore at your peril.
The relatively narrow band of independent voters put Pres. Obama into office and took the House from the Democrats. They (OK, we) don't want one party in the White House and leading Congress (see Jonathan Rauch column in the NYT) . Neither party has a monopoly on hubris. Speakers Gingrich and Pelosi made the same mistake - winning the middle is not a national mandate for the positions that won a primary or district. If either party wants to get and keep the radical moderates of the middle they will need to govern, not just occupy government.
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