Moderates (Blue Dog)

Placement: Center-right

Moderate Democrats, elected mostly in rural and Southern districts and named after the Blue Dog Coalition in the House: balanced budgets, a strong defence, caution on guns and immigration. They often vote with the Republicans.

In short

On the traditional scale, Moderates (Blue Dog) sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on foreign policy: fairly towards “interventionism”; method: fairly towards “reform”; justice: slightly towards “tough on crime”; technology: slightly towards “acceleration”. On economy, state, society, sovereignty, religion, environment, democracy and devolution it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is third way (89%).