The Democrats are losing their moderates. The few moderate Republicans like Snowe and Brown represent states with a more or less ideal Democratic voter-makeup. But they are in the minority and on the other hand Democrats are losing states where working class are abandoning them for the Republican Party. By spurning their Blue Dogs, the Democrats ensured their minority status in the House. They may yet follow suit as well in the Senate.
There are no Moderate Republicans or Democrats, they are both Libs.
Count Senator Mellon Head in this group as well.
Liberal RATS hold the working class in contempt and enact policies which damage and diminish it—Then they turn around and wonder why their base is shrinking.
Jane Harman is their ideal of a moderate Democrat?? I guess Joseph Stalin would be considered a moderate by this writer also...