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It has been remarked that Bill Clinton was governed as a hardcore centrist (if not as a moderate Republican) in the 1990s and the Democrats in general, with the rise of the DLC, shifted in a rightward direction on the political spectrum in response to the GOP's success during the Reagan years.

Dukakis catered to the centrists/conservatives in his choice of Lloyd Bentsen as running mate.
1992's primary was a fight between the centrist Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown who was both very progressive and very conservative (supporting a flat tax and wanting to abolish the Department of Education).
Gore-Lieberman was a fairly centrist ticket.
Obama governed as a center-left neoliberal who used some early 90s GOP ideas as well (Cap and trade, individual mandate, etc).
Clinton's preferred running mate in 2008 was Strickland and in 2016 the final two were Kaine and Vilsack supposedly.

How to the center/right could the Democrats get after the Reagan Revolution?
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