Assuming the political leanings of the populous are measured in a vacuum, sure. But they aren’t.

Right, we also aren’t measuring political leanings worldwide. We are measuring them in the United States.

In the United States leftist have very few voters and candidates because of its lack of popularity.

When your only options of votes are “guys who have a hard-on for fascism” and “let’s appeal to those who aren’t entirely sold but are willing to see where the fascism goes”,

The reason these are the two options are because these options win in the primaries by the majority of voters choosing them in a democracy.

Leftists run in the primaries and lose fairly, even to AIPAC candidates.

If the majority of voters are centrists then shouldn’t the policies reflect that?

Do you think leftist policies should be forced onto voters that don’t want them and vote against them?

I read the article and don’t understand your comment. How is this an example of democrats trying to get “center voters”?

Not that they shouldn’t be trying to win over centrists, they definitely should because there are more centrists than leftists by a lot and those centrists are constituents.

Not to mention that is how democrats have won the majority of nation wide elections in the last several decades.