I’m not disagreeing with the accuracy of your categorization necessarily, but we could subdivide the spectrum down to a nigh infinite degree depending on how granular we want to get (because no two politicians or voters are likely to be literally 100% the same across every policy or position, and you can probably find…

Your first sentence makes it sound like you’re saying there’s multiple spectrums, but by definition, centrists would go between the first two groups you described (i.e., between center-right and center-left.)

“In other words, they’re actually center-right”

Thanks for the insight! The effect of moose and salmon season on electoral politics is precisely the sort of 'inside baseball' I was looking for! 

I know a lot of people who have styled themselves “moderates” or “centrists” for years who nor grudgingly admit to being left- or center-left wingers by virtue of the right having moved SO far over.

“As an attorney I’m biased in the other direction in that I don’t find the job inherently impressive.”

I’m Cuban-American, code Latino (though I’ve gotten Egyptian from time to time?), and grew up in Miami. It wasn’t until I moved to Tallahassee for undergrad that that I realized “oh, south of Palm Beach County, I’m basically white... but everywhere else I’m a Mexican (or, in NYC, Puerto Rican.)”

Can anyone give a rundown on whether this a good an indicator of her chances of winning again in November? I would assume ‘yes’, but I don’t know jack shit about Alaskan electoral procedure and politics beyond the fact that Lisa Murkowski is a mendacious coward. 

That's an interesting insight! I didn't realize he'd been married before. 

An internal investigation by ViacomCBS in 2018 didn’t turn up reports of sexual misconduct[.]

(does Amal Clooney have a particularly impressive “ancestry, lineage, and family legacy).

Or join the military, basically signing up to kill or be killed.

I’m not exactly arguing he’s *not* superficial or strategic—it’s entirely possible he’s completely transactional about this and that this is a chess move by him; I don’t necessarily believe that myself, but both of these things can be true: (1) that this was a carefully calculated move intended to form a mega power…

I think you’re doing Amal Clooney a disservice here—she’s not just some trophy wife, or a well-bred race horse. If George Clooney said that he dated around for as long as he did because he wanted to be reasonably certain he could not possibly do better than whomever he ultimately ended up with, and that person turned o…

The thing about a pattern like this is that, at at some point, it becomes such a public joke that it would almost be bizarre if these women didn’t go into a relationship with the man with notice. Also, I know it’s par for the course for the 30+ crowd to infantalize women in their 20's (because “ha ha I was such a mess…

“I must agree with the internet: what is there to investigate?”

So if you’re a white Nigerian (I’m assuming there are in fact white Nigerians, but maybe there aren’t?) are you still good to go? Or is ‘Nigerian’ an ethnic category rather than nationality? In other words, if you were born to Black Nigerian parents in the U.S., would you be ‘Nigerianʼ or ‘foreignʼ for the purposes of…

“way too many generically pretty white female country performers in this ‘tempest in a teapotʼ”

I’m saying they’re incomparable because, within the ambit of this discussion, they are clearly not ‘called outʼ for the same reasons. People typically don’t call out drug or alcohol abuse until the addict is hurting other people—i.e., their substance abuse begins to negatively affect others, whether directly through…

“So diversity hires only count if they’re infallibly perfect representatives of their real world identities?”