RIGHT SPEAK: Do you believe more and more Voters are becoming Part of a Radicalized Center? ....Are You?

...This radicalized center appears economically disaffected, vaguely populist and not especially ideological. It feels increasingly detached from both parties. It isn't necessarily expecting some political savior but appears primed to latch onto one, should he or she appear.

It may not be obvious at first how last week's election results fit this picture. The year's three big races, for governor of New Jersey, governor of Virginia and mayor of New York City, were won by a conservative, a moderate and a liberal, respectively.

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But consider them in turn and you can see the trends. In New Jersey, Chris Christie won re-election by positioning himself as a conservative Republican who is prepared to move beyond his own ideology to get things done. By bragging of his ability to work with Democrats, he ran as almost the antithesis of both parties in Washington.

In Virginia, the governor's race was won by Terry McAuliffe, who, as former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and leading pal of Bill and Hillary Clinton, hardly qualifies as an outsider. But it was both the misfortune and strategic blunder of his Republican opponent, Ken Cuccinelli, to become identified with the Republicans who led the government shutdown in Washington. That left the pragmatic problem-solver lane open for Mr. McAuliffe.

In New York, newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio is hardly nonideological; he's an avowed liberal. But it would be hard to find somebody who more represents an alternative to the status quo, as represented by departing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, or somebody more attuned to today's populist impulses.

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