• As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.

    Daniel Pfeiffer: As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.
    "The Obama Triangulation: The Right, the Left and Slick Willy" by Judith Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2010.