Moderates are most powerful voters in America

Over at Raging Centrists, they are delighting in an op-ed piece in The New York Times that calls independent voters in the center the most powerful voters in America.

Here’s what sparked their interest: “Despite efforts to polarize our politics into ideological base camps, in presidential elections the deciding vote still belongs to the middle. These voters have been drowned out lately by the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, but they are the main prize in 2012. (You are) the ’40 within 40′ — 40 percent of the electorate self-identify as independent, and 40 percent of those independents describe themselves as moderate. That means about one in six voters are up for grabs. Obama won them in 2008. The Democrats lost them badly in 2010.”