The Centrist Project hopes to elect some independent candidates to congress and state legislatures, and especially hopes these independents will win in legislative bodies that are closely balanced between the Republican and Democratic members. Political scientist Seth Masket comments here about that strategy.
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Edited By Richard Winger
My biggest issue with the project is that there are many types of “centrists” I would hate an authoritarian centrist, which is close to what Clinton & Trump were, but love a liberty minded centrist, like Gary Johnson was.
I disagree Brandon. Centrist should mean being center in regards to the three major axis of political ideologies (fiscal, social, and government power). Somebody that’s a centrist should find a roughly perfect balance of all three. France’s Macron is probably a perfect example.
You can’t really be a libertarian or authoritarian centrist. A centrist should be perfectly in between with no more than 20% deviation in either direction.
For example, look at the Nolan Chart:
https://www.nolanchart.com/images/nolan_chart.png
Judge Moore is leading? This could be an interesting one to watch.