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Gerald Seib argues that if liberals are irritated with the Democrats and conservatives are irked with the Republicans, voters in the middle should be happy. That's a nifty theory and it makes a certain amount of superficial sense. But President Bush's approval rating hovers between the 20s and low 30s, Congress's ratings are closer to the teens (and in one poll, the single digits), and the presidential race features two major-party candidates stuck below 50 percent of the vote with 10-15 percent of the electorate still undecided. That doesn't sound like happy moderates to me.