Article snippet: Is the center-left striking back in the Democratic presidential primary? South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE has warned the party not to overestimate the American public's appetite for sweeping change. Those developments, all coming in quick succession, have changed the mood music around a primary that had previously been dominated by the rise of progressive Sen. MORE were out of step with the party’s activist base. “This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement,” Obama said at an appearance in Washington on Friday. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.” Obama’s intervention was nuanced — he sympathized with people arguing that his own reforms had not gone far enough and that more needed to be done — but overall it was more supportive of incrementalism than the radicalism advocated by progressives such as Warren and Sen. MORE (I-Vt.). Underlining the state of flux within the primary, Warren has now made clear that she would not seek to enact "Medicare for All" immediately after taking office. If elected, she would intend to pass it by the end of her third year in the White House, she stated on Friday. To many observers, that clarification seemed like a concession to those who have argued that Warren is positioning herself in too radical a spot for the general electorate — a serious vulnerability given how desperate Democrats are to beat MORE next November. “I think it is a ... Link to the full article to read more