But will he pay a price with the centrist voters who so often decide presidential elections, as the Democrats hope?
The outcome of the second round depended on the centrist voters.
She would alienate not just centrist voters but also potential partners like the Greens.
But debt reduction is clearly popular with centrist voters, who see it as a component of today's prosperity.
This is said to have turned centrist voters to choose the Broad Front, and the party received 51.7% of votes.
The risk for Obama is that tougher rhetoric against big business could turn off some of the centrist voters he needs to win re-election.
But most said they understood that he might have to minimize those views to win centrist voters.
Some analysts have said Kaczyński has softened his image during the campaign, in order to win centrist voters.
In the middle there is a vast green land of centrist voters who want more of "the arts," by any means.
The move was generally seen as intended to draw centrist voters away from the conservative parties in the 1993 elections.