The moderate politician until recently was considered the Socialists' most likely candidate in next year's elections.

He is also known as a moderate Republican politician and public official.

He became known as a moderate politician who opposed capital punishment and restrictions on immigration.

That goes a long way toward explaining why "class based" affirmative action has become the moderate politician's policy flavor of the month.

Dukakis had tried to portray himself as a moderate politician from the liberal state of Massachusetts.

Moving to Tuscany, he forged strong links with a number of local moderate politicians.

Mr. Clinton is a moderate and a politician to his soul.

Some local moderate politicians complained about the monument, but others approved it.

His nationalism has pushed even moderate Serbian politicians into inflammatory statements.

But results in most other races showed a trend toward moderate politicians, officials said.