text: This article is well written - if unbalanced.  Both parties have migrated from their traditional positions, and it is Reagan who said "I didn't leave the (Democratic) Party, it left me" when explaining how a Union President ended up with the Republicans.  True moderates have a problem:  who represents us?  I spent most of my life as a registered Republican and sometime volunteer activist - but today I am a registered independent - just as apparently many other seniors are.