And it clearly seems to be the case that even if rich donors are more left wing than rank-and-file Democrats, small donors are even more left wing.
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He was more left-wing than Obama, but not a troublemaker.
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Sherrod Brown of Ohio's "canary candidates" program, more left-wing candidates prevailed.
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Sometimes more "moderate" ideas are actually less popular than more left-wing alternatives.
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Back then, Labour was far more left-wing politically than it is now.
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It was a more left-wing manifesto than previous Labour efforts, but hardly extremist.
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The fight between Biden and his more left-wing opponents isn't just about policy.
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Younger or more left-wing Democrats have grabbed attention by promising universal health care soon.
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On some domestic issues he is more left-wing: health care, infrastructure spending and tax.
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In 2014, commentators noticed Fox News was also putting more left-wing analysts on air.
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Obama, for his part, believes that a more left-wing version would not have passed.
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Marshall will try to oust the more left-wing state Labor government in the March 17 election.
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Exit polls in New Hampshire suggest 41% of Democrats want a more left-wing president than Barack Obama.
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That's not enough for the latest generation of California Democrats, who are more left wing than their predecessors.
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Oddly, Mr Netanyahu claims to be more left-wing than Mr Rabin, who never talked of a Palestinian state.
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Naturally, they felt the way to accomplish that was by adopting new more left-wing stances on economic issues.
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But the Irish election showed the potency of a rental crisis for younger and more left-wing voters, too.
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This has led to the more left-wing members of the party to call for reparations to black people.
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If Mr Macron's more left-wing supporters switch, then it is possible to imagine a Le Pen-Mélenchon second round.
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Far from it: On a few specific policy issues, Clinton voters in 2016 were more left-wing than Sanders voters.
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The Democratic victory in 2018 was the result of center-left Democrats winning against more left-wing opponents in primaries.
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He is certainly more left-wing than Michael Foot, the leader in 1980-83, who never had any truck with Marxism.
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It's true that opinions about guns are similar across age groups, even as younger people are more left-wing in general.
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There's little attempt to syndicate more left-wing — or even more moderate — content because it wouldn't last long on the station.
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Sanders and his youthful supporters want the Democrats to be a different kind of party: a more ideological, more left-wing one.
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Last month, though, Gillibrand announced she would stop taking money from corporate PACs, joining more left-wing senators like Warren and Sanders.
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Moreover, it is not fully clear where they stand: a pragmatically pro-business leadership contrasting awkwardly with its more left-wing base.
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At the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night, John Delaney argued that some of his more left-wing opponents' proposals simply weren't workable.
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Yet neither argument explains why vicars are more left-wing than their flocks on economic issues, while being more conservative on social ones.
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Government advertising (and dedicated journalists) kept the paper alive; its editorial line became more left-wing, but not slavishly supportive of Ms Fernández.
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This result holds even for liberal whites; they move right too, albeit from a more left-wing starting point than their conservative peers.
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Activist groups, in other words, would love to see Clinton revoke Garland's nomination in favor of a younger and more left-wing choice.
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"The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display," Grisham reportedly told the outlet.
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But for some, such as Kuehnert's supporters, it would be a clear call for change and a more left-wing agenda in opposition.
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Democrats are basically all in agreement on taxes, with higher income Democrats being maybe even a little more left-wing than lower-income ones.
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Sanders's positioning is generally the reverse of this — also broadly continuous with Obama's approach but shading in a more left-wing, more dovish direction.
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This shift is related to Mr. Corbyn's political ideology, which is more left-wing than that of his predecessors in the Labour Party leadership.
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On issue after issue, the voters who a "mobilization" strategy would target are more moderate than consistent Democrats not more left-wing than them.
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Many Democrats in the race are embracing more left-wing positions, with a debate over the future of health care — Medicare-for-all vs.
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Working-class legislators vote in a more left-wing manner on economic issues than other legislators from the same party who represent similar districts.
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Being much more left-wing than the majority of his MPs, Corbyn was always at risk of leading the party off into the wilderness.
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If Garland is a slightly more left-wing Anthony Kennedy, on the other hand, liberal Democrats can argue that Obama's pick is an utter betrayal.
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Younger Democrats are hungry for a more left-wing, more ideologically rigorous Democratic Party, but after eight years of Obama the general public is not.
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Then Jonathan Haidt, one of the paper's co-authors, highlighted research showing that the entire American academy has become more left-wing since the 1990s.
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According to Cannon, insurgent progressive candidates are causing many more established, centrist Democratic politicians to assume more left-wing positions that they might otherwise take.
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For the environmentalists, the pressures of negotiation have brought to the fore old strains between the party's "realist" wing and its more left-wing elements.
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They represent contrasting ideological visions in which the proponents of a mobilization-focused strategy also hope to build support for more left-wing policy ideas.
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If the offer is rejected and the strike continues, it will underscore the deep resentment that persists among more left-wing unions against Macron's ambitious agenda.
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Even fewer back the official Socialist candidate, Benoît Hamon, in part because a yet more left-wing figure, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is siphoning away his voters.
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When Labour was in Downing Street, the Lib Dems found a role as a pacifist, civil libertarian and slightly more left-wing alternative to the government.
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She represents continuity, and voters want change; exit polls in New Hampshire suggest that 42% of Democrats want a more left-wing president than Barack Obama.
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Nonetheless, Black Lives Matter spirituality is not just a slightly more left-wing version of Dr. Barber's faith (he calls himself a "theologically conservative evangelical biblicist").
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It was a stronghold of the Labour Party before Scottish voters switched to the even more left-wing Scottish National Party, now the dominant political force.
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"I do not believe that there are more left-wing filmmakers because creative talent exists only on the left and not on the right," he said.
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They had been right about the desire to shift the Democrats to the left, but their own vision was supplanted by a more left-wing Sanders campaign.
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For Democrats, the more affluent voters were generally more left-wing — probably because they are better-educated and thus generally more ideological — but the difference is small.
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Corbyn, who was seen as a surprise choice for Labour leader when he was elected in 2015, is known to be more left-wing than previous party leaders.
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Their support for Democrats and Republicans is split between those who favour less government intervention in the economy, and those who hold more left-wing, interventionist economic views.
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It made more left-wing members willing to drop dreams of a big new public program and more centrist members willing to drop hostility to expansion of Medicaid.
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The report acknowledged the challenge Bloomberg, a billionaire and a centrist on many issues, would face in a party increasingly defined by more left-wing policies and politicians.
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Then during Margaret Thatcher's administration, a clear divide in party politics emerged, wherein the Scottish electorate proved to be consistently and durably more left-wing than English voters.
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While millennials tend to hold more left-wing economic views, they are far keener on the idea of globalisation, broadly conceived, thanks to their more positive attitudes towards multiculturalism.
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Opposing Trump's efforts at disrupting U.S. alliances with democracies abroad while cozying up with dictators is a no-brainer for both liberal internationalists and their more left-wing compatriots.
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Some of the party's more left-wing members believe that the only way for the party to win back voters would be to quit the coalition with the conservatives.
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In particular, younger voters and candidates — who faced burdensome student loans and a difficult job market after the crisis — have embraced more left-wing policies, according to Princeton's McCarty.
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The Flake argument is that Clinton would likely nominate a younger and more left-wing justice than Garland, so if Trump loses, Republicans are better off confirming Obama's nominee.
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Their radicalism was more an attraction to Mélenchon — which makes sense, as young voters are typically more left-wing and more likely to support new parties than the old.
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Clinton's specific arguments against Sanders on the progressive question were not necessarily so convincing — it's clear that with the exception of guns, he is a uniformly more left-wing politician.
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The former foreign secretary David Miliband and the former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham both ultimately lost out to more left-wing challengers in 2010 and 2015, despite taking early leads.
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But whether the new, more left-wing Democratic Party can actually secure a national governing majority in a way that the old weak-sauce one could remains an untested proposition.
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The party is especially popular with younger voters who are perhaps less aware of the 20th century civil war with Britain and attracted by the party's more left-wing policy book.
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Parliamentary government produces more left-wing policies than presidential government — and Americans of a left-of-center tilt ought to be thinking of ways to move the country toward parliamentary rule.
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"You've gotta worry about what happens to the whole group if we get a Democratic sweep next year with one of the more left-wing candidates winning the White House," Cramer said.
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As someone who has worked as a college lecturer, I have to admit: My own experience suggests the anecdotal evidence is correct—academics lean more left wing than the general population does.
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That Obama's more radical impulses — or those of his more left-wing staffers — have been tempered by things like politics, caution, the limited agenda space, coalition management, and path dependency isn't unusual.
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Now they're free to pursue much more left-wing climate bills closer in principle to the Green New Deal, which emphasizes government programs over the market-based approach of cap and trade.
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"The fact that the PSOE party members have voted for the candidate with the more left-wing agenda, should lessen the stability of the minority government," DZ Bank strategist Christian Lenk said.
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Mr. Smith, a member of the school's College Democrats, said he liked Mr. Biden, but preferred his more left-wing rivals, such as Mr. O'Rourke, Mr. Castro, Ms. Harris or Ms. Warren.
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On most issues, Democratic Party donors appear to be more left wing than rank-and-file Democrats, and rank-and-file Democrats are in turn to the left of the median voter.
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However, this being France, there is an even more left-wing candidate than Hamon in the form of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former socialist and the current candidate for the Communist Party.
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All this against a background of strained relations between the coalition partners: the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the more left-wing Free and Equal movement.
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"The fact that the PSOE (Socialist) party members have voted for the candidate with the more left-wing agenda, should lessen the stability of the minority government," DZ Bank strategist Christian Lenk said.
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren hasn't backed President Trump per se, but her tough talk on China represents a good amount of the more left wing faction of the Democratic Party's feelings on Beijing.
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And there is now infighting aplenty, with other Democrats rushing to distance themselves from Omar while more left-wing writers and activists emphasize their agreement with the basic point that pro-Israel money matters.
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Topics like Israel and
Palestine, institutional racism and L.G.B.T. issues all break down into circular conversations in which I have to defend my more-left-wing stances, which they regard as idealistic and childish.
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I asked Dean Baker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, one of the more left-wing and Sanders-friendly economists in the Washington policy world, what he thought of the 22008 percent target.
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Under Corbyn and McDonnell, Labour has shifted from the centrist pro-business platform of former prime minister Blair to being more left-wing since they took hold of the party leadership almost three years ago.
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Several sources who spoke to The Hill noted that Sanders had also been an appealing candidate to working-class voters in his 220006 campaign, while hewing to a significantly more left-wing ideology than Biden.
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Some of the organizations that backed Sanders are already pressuring Biden to move in their direction, on the same premise that he needs them to get younger and more left-wing voters excited about voting.
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Health care investors worry that a wave election could give the White House to one of the more left-wing Democratic candidates, and that the party would win majorities in both the House and the Senate.
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But where ideology is a factor in elections, this data shows that voters are likely to prefer a moderate Democrat, like Sanders says Clinton is, to a more left-wing one, like Sanders says he is.
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Whatever you make of Hillary Clinton's current policy agenda, there's no denying that it's far more left-wing across the board even as the status quo in many of these areas has shifted to the left.
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But over the weekend, a bunch of people asked me to offer my view of Proposition 10, which broadly speaking would allow California's more left-wing localities to expand both the scope and stringency of rent control.
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The idea for centrists is that Bloomberg or Patrick could offer an insurance policy in later-voting states if Biden fades; the read from more left-wing Democrats is that more easy targets are entering the race.
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But it's assuming that it can afford to be more left-wing than Obama while doing so, relying on the fear that Trump instills rather than any ideological inducements to bring some Romney voters inside its tent.
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"I think if there's going to be another election and possibly the chance of a more left-wing government, then that probably decreases the chance of monetary policy being loosened any further in the future," Brown said.
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Mr. Corbyn also appears to want to make it easier for Labour to join a political coalition with the Scottish National Party, which shares his antinuclear views and whose policies are more left-wing than recent Labour ones.
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All told, however, both Biden and his more progressive rivals are somewhat downplaying exactly how much more left wing than the ACA this idea is — while the industry groups, facing a different set of incentives, are having a more telling reaction.
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In their different ways all these scandals feed into two critiques of elite academia, one more left-wing and one more right-wing, which take different routes to the same condemnatory claim: These schools claim to be meritocratic, but they aren't.
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There is absolutely no universe in which Sanders can enact an agenda that's more left-wing than what a Kamala Harris administration would deliver, since not only Harris herself but dozens of more conservative senators would need to vote for anything he does.
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And then, as the army got closer, I became more left-wing and more invested in figuring out how to end Israel's occupation and more ideological because I saw that it was really just the left that was trying to end it.
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Its moderates are more liberal, its liberals are more left-wing (one incumbent in the House of Delegates, Lee Carter, is a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America), and its conservatives are a memory, casualties of past Republican victories.
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Quist's policy positions are fundamentally not all that distinct from what Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton offered — a bit more left-wing on health care and a bit more right-wing on guns and energy issue — but his personality is very different.
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Larry Hogan is less conservative than the average Republican and that his opponent Ben Jealous is more left-wing than the average Democrat — and that the policymaking stakes in the Maryland gubernatorial election are not identical to the stakes in a federal election.
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Had the 2016 election broken slightly differently, after all, the blockage on Merrick Garland might have ended up looking like a fiasco that ultimately allowed President Hillary Clinton to swap him out in favor of a younger and more left-wing justice.
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But examining the details of Sanders's higher education plan is a reminder that there's relatively little reason to think that replacing Barack Obama with a more left-wing president would be the major difference maker on the issues that Sanders and his supporters care about.
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"It's hard to know who's more left-wing than whom, even if you're paying very close attention," Todd Gitlin, a social movement historian and professor at Columbia who was president of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s, told me of the sprawling field.
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Other Republicans suggest that—should they lose the White House—confirming a centrist such as Mr Garland in the "lame duck" session after the general election might be less risky than waiting for a new Democratic president to make a more left-wing pick.
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There is also the question of whether the social media chatter about the contest fosters the impression that the party as a whole is more left-wing — and therefore more likely to select someone like Warren as its nominee — than is actually the case.
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The actual Republican Party, by signaling its intention to block any nominee for any reason, will give Chuck Schumer precisely the political rationale he needs to further curb filibuster — opening the door to a more left-wing justice and potentially more liberal legislation as well.
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"His (Hollande's) obsession before the presidential election is to reassure the left, because if he wants to reach the second round, he needs to make sure no other, more left-wing candidate will run against him," said Elie Cohen, an economist at research institute CNRS.
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But though Democrats are certainly the more left-wing of the two parties — the party of labor unions and environment groups and feminist organizations and the civil rights movement — they're not an ideologically left-wing party in the same way that Republicans are an ideological conservative one.
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Melenchon, who was a PS member for over three decades before slamming the door to create his own, more left-wing party in 2008, said the Socialists were so discredited after nearly five years in power that it was pointless for them to field a candidate.
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Embedded in the Sanders/Lessig critique is the idea that if we somehow reformed the American system of government so that it perfectly reflected the people's will, untainted by corporate influence or government structures currently stopping progress, the resulting policies would be much more left-wing.
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It is certainly a bold vision for how to deal with climate change, but the resolution's official legislative text is also a compromise; it's a version of the proposal that its writers believe can draw in more mainstream Democrats in addition to more left-wing activists.
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As one House Democrat who supports single-payer explained to me, most of his more left-wing colleagues are aware that foreign single-payer health care systems are cheaper overall than the American private one, and infer from that the idea that paying for single-payer would be easy.
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In place of party-wide attempts at reconciliation, Corbyn's critics—be they motivated by anti-Semitism or Brexit or anything else—are increasingly threatened with "de-selection," the damning prospect of local party organizations removing support for MPs and forcing them to run against more left-wing Labour opponents.
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" Don't forget Biden's roots in Scranton, Pa. Some think Bernie Sanders is better suited: "Several sources who spoke to The Hill noted that Sanders had also been an appealing candidate to working-class voters in his 2016 campaign, while hewing to a significantly more left-wing ideology than Biden.
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While many on the left now dislike Tony Blair with a passion only second to Margaret Thatcher, the stark fact remains that Blair's centrist New Labour won three consecutive elections -- something no other Labour leader has done -- while more left-wing candidates before and after him have lost badly.
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That's because it's in line with a well-known finding in political psychology that people who score high in a personality attribute known as "openness to experience" tend to have more left-wing political opinions (see Will Wilkinson's overview for the Economist or Chris Mooney's for the Washington Post).
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Emboldened by the fawning mainstream media coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel Pro-Trump Republican immigrant to challenge Dem lawmaker who flipped Michigan seat 85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE, left wing Democrats are becoming increasingly radicalized.
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But it's possible that this is changing, with the Women's March's eccentric leadership as a leading indicator, and that a more left-wing, populist, anti-establishment Democratic Party — a party reshaped by Ocasio-Cortezan energy, shall we say — will become increasingly influenced by paranoias and bigotries that bubble up on the far left.
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His stronger than expected challenge to eventual Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE in 2016 showed there was an appetite in the party for more left-wing policies.
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The slowing of the German motor has set off an acrimonious debate within Germany's ruling "grand coalition", an uneasy alliance between the Christian Democrats, who want to stick to their traditional fiscal orthodoxy (encapsulated in the "black zero" policy of no deficits), and the Social Democrats, who are now pushing for more spending under their more left-wing, newly elected leaders.
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As Sanders and other Biden surrogates made their way through the state on a bus with "Battle for the Soul of the Nation" emblazoned on its sides, they hammered home two points to black voters: that Biden would help their down-ballot candidates, the implication being that other more left-wing candidates might not; and that voters in delegate-rich Southern Super Tuesday states, which include Alabama, Texas and North Carolina, are watching whom they vote for.
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