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So, some commentators didn't get the memo -- or, actually, the poll. They filed their hot takes about how Howard Schultz does too reflect public demand for a centrist before they saw Change Research's poll 1/ medium.com/@ChngRsrch/pre… 
FWIW, political scientists tell us that social liberals/economic conservatives -- the "Howard Schultz quadrant" -- are about 4 percent of the electorate. Sure enough, he has 4 percent approval ... 2/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
And while pundits keep telling us that Democrats are going too far left, the public is actually quite far left on economic issues. For example 3/ thehill.com/hilltv/what-am…
What "far left" really means is that Dems are out of touch with ... billionaires. And that matters, because with great wealth comes great ability to mess up politicians via, among other things, self-financed spoiler campaigns. But don't say that it's Dems vs ordinary folks 4/
The political matrix looks like this -- SW and NR quadrants served by major parties, NW and SE not. But there's almost nobody in that SE quadrant 5/
