middle-of-the-roader
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Burned by a fierce confirmation fight that rejected Robert Bork, President Reagan picked Anthony Kennedy, a middle-of-the-roader who has played the role of balancer and swing vote.
From Newsweek • Apr. 10, 2010
But he went on to insist that he was a "middle-of-the-roader on education, health and welfare, and a liberal on civil rights."
From Time Magazine Archive
Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns.
From Time Magazine Archive
But now 1964 is anybody's race, and the G.O.P. may well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson—Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning.
From Time Magazine Archive
