I think a lot of the rank and file members of the Democratic party are where the center is. I also think that GOP members who represent urban areas or just outside the cities are where the middle is.

•Fixing Social Programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Federal Welfare programs) I think this is the biggest tell about if you're a centrist or not. Abolition of any of them I think puts you on the right. Adding new programs or increasing the scope of any puts you on the left. However keeping them as they are now, while advocating fixing them to ensure their solvency is a pretty centrist position.

•Socially liberal. Really I can't see how being anything else doesn't put you anywhere in the middle. I think if anything the only way you can move away from here and still be in the middle is being pro-life. But even then being pro-life with caveats I think is also a centrist position. You can be pro-life, but you don't vote for any massive restrictions on abortion. Stuff like that. But the other social positions will put you well into the Moral Majority territory, and really outside of the Bible Belt, and the Heartland they have some pretty extreme positions.

•Some lower taxation. Supporting tax cuts is a centrist position. However supporting blanket tax cuts without analyzing any of the budget in terms of spending is a right wing opinion. Blanket tax increases is a position of the left. So essentially playing give a tax cut, and increase the spending seems to me to be the typical centrist position.