Sharron Angle has taken a long, winding journey on Social Security — only to end up back in the same place, at least in some respects. She started off calling for the program to be phased out, then scrambled to walk that position back, and is now kind of creeping back toward the original — perhaps unintentionally. In many ways, Angle’s motions on this big issue reflect the classic pattern of a political campaign: Go to extremes for the primary, and inch to the middle for the general election.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=122604