Reid Wilson, reporter with the "The Hill", writes of a split between liberal and centrist Democrats - is he splitting hairs, or is there an existing/growing divide?  One thing is for sure, if young people in urban communities continue to use their voice more and more in politics, we will start seeing the change we want and need.  Read Wilson's write up of this left/middle split that is the talk of the town in progressive circles:

Cracks in Democratic Party show split between centrists and liberals

Democrats have big majorities in both houses of Congress, but cracks are emerging — both legislatively and politically — that threaten to pit liberals and centrists against each other.

Where President Bush was able to enforce tight discipline on the Republican Conference while his political advisers exercised an iron grip on the national party, President Obama and his advisers have been less able to do so. 

That, political watchers say, is not unusual, especially for a Democratic president.

“The Democrats have always been herding cats,” said Rhodes Cook, an independent political analyst. “They’ve always been considered to be the more diverse party, more racially diverse, more ethnically diverse” and, therefore, more ideologically diverse, he added.

Now that diversity is manifesting itself.

For all its efforts, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been unable to avoid primary challenges against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who switched parties at the end of April, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), appointed earlier this year to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In Congress, as the Senate inches forward on healthcare legislation, Democrats have to deal more with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, than with any Republican lawmaker.

And after cap-and-trade legislation passed the House by a narrow margin, the bill’s fate is more in the hands of Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska), two Democrats with significant oil infrastructure in their states, than with any Republican.

Read more at: TheHill.com