Mystery of ‘Missing Middle’ <br>Puzzles Political Pundits <br>As Election Year Dawns
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Call it “the missing middle.” Not the supposedly vanishing middle-income or middle-class American family, about which politicians from both parties have been raising an alarm, but rather the moderate middle of American politics, which has lately been nearly imperceptible.
Two Republican candidates aiming at the centrist wing of the party, George Pataki and Lindsey Graham, recently dropped out of the presidential race. Jim Webb, who was on the right flank of the Democrats, couldn’t make a go of his campaign.
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