Kansas pastor’s Senate buzz sparks GOP pushback!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pd1qvDgWYCk

Opinion | Biden is showing that governing from the middle is possible - The Washington Post

More important, please remember that Manchin represents a state that Trump won by about 40 points in 2020. The wonder is surely that he is willing to go as far as he has already. Think of him as a litmus test. If Democrats can keep Manchin with them, by definition they are building a big tent, one that could encompass a majority of Americans...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/28/biden-is-showing-that-governing-middle-is-possible/

Opinion | A Viable Third Party Is Coming, and It’s Starting With a New Jersey Lawsuit - The New York Times

A centrist fusion party could restore to Americans in the middle some of the leverage they have lost...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opinion/moderate-party-new-jersey.html

Columnist E.J. Dionne On How To Unite The Democratic Party (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

Columnist E.J. Dionne has called on progressives and moderates in the Democratic party to unite under what he calls a banner of decency, dignity and democracy. Does he think that’s happened?
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/08/21/columnist-e-j-dionne-on-how-to-unite-the-democratic-party

Republican Moderates Are Finally Playing Hardball To Get What They Want - BuzzFeed News

"Going along to get along will only get you so far when they [the Freedom Caucus] keep doing the same thing," said one moderate Republican. ....
https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod/republicans-immigration-freedom-caucus

A Moderate Democrat Confesses His Sins

Late Night writer Ben Warheit, a self-professed moderate Democrat, gets flogged while confessing his political sins.
https://youtu.be/7zagLV7XxfE

Republicans face a fresh fight over Obamacare: Repeal it or repair it? -- USA TODAY

Moderates want to bolster the Affordable Care Act, while conservatives want to take another shot at killing the 2010 health care law. ....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/02/republicans-face-fresh-fight-over-obamacare-repeal-fix/997008001/

U.S. religion is increasingly polarized | Science News

Moderate forms of organized worship are losing ground while evangelicalism maintains a steady foothold....
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/us-religion-increasingly-polarized

Moderate Republicans, Dems huddle on healthcare -- The Hill

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has poured cold water on the idea of working with Democrats to fix ObamaCare....
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/342573-moderate-republicans-dems-huddle-on-healthcare

The Patient Resilience of Iran’s Reformers

While President Trump basked in the flattery of Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy on Friday, about 75 percent of Iranian voters turned out to repudiate an authoritarian populist and re-elect their moderate president, Hassan Rouhani. Mr. Rouhani ran against extremism and on the promise of human rights, civil liberties, rational economic management and engagement with the world — a platform that won him 57 percent of the vote to his opponent’s 38.5 percent.

It wasn’t the first time Iranian voters expressed their preference for these values. They have done so repeatedly, overcoming every obstacle a repressive state can thrust in their way....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/opinion/iran-election-reformers.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170523&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=5&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1