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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lilmaniac2" data-source="post: 3555479" data-attributes="member: 565395">We covered this in my pol sci class.  The american public opinion is similar to a bell curve with the majority of them falling in the moderate part policy wise.  Anytime public opinion shifts the parties shift that way, to fight over as few people as possible.  This is known as the economic theory of political parties.Something neat is how during the primaries, the parties tend to go further to there extreme ( left or right ) to gain as many of there base as possible.  Then they have to fight to get back to the middle to win the actual election.  This is why most people think candidates flip flop on the issues.</blockquote>

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