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CENTRISM. Ah, more pleasant aftershocks from 2006:
People who worked with Mr. Siegel this year say it is not clear how he would perform in a presidential campaign where there are multiple consultants, and where strategic cunning and political moderation tend to be prized. (Mr. Siegel says he has some centrist positions, like supporting welfare reform and the war in Afghanistan.)So let's be clear: Supporting the war in Afghanistan is now evidence of centrism and hardcore economic populism now occupies the moderate middle? I am loving this new political spectrum. Meanwhile, Siegel is an actually effective advertising director with Madison avenue experience who wandered up to Spitzer at a fundraiser, cut a series of killer ads for him, and is now a hot ticket for 2008 Democrats. Get him and Ned Lamont's guy on the same team and you'll have a legendary airwave campaign.
--Ezra Klein
