Perotista, while I agree with your methodology regarding polls, and many of your sentiments regarding various topics, I diverge on your final points. I agree with Greger that Warren is more of a centrist than you believe or that she is playing. I, too, "long for the past when the two parties would work together via compromise".

But, when you say, "anything proposed by Democrats the Republicans are automatically against, anything proposed by a Republican, the Democrats automatically are against. Merits of the proposal doesn't matter, just who proposed it." You go too far, and that is where I think your thinking gets muddled. Democrats, most especially Obama, tried to incorporate Republican ideas for two solid years, and far longer (too long, in my view) on specific issues, such as immigration. That failed, not because of the ideas (see, ACA, immigration), but because of intransigent, intractable resistance (See, Merrick Garland). Democratic resistance has not come because of ideology, but the utter vacuous nature of Republican proposals.

I'll issue you a friendly challenge: name a Republican proposal that a) has merit, and b) has been rejected out-of-hand by Democrats. I mean this earnestly. Let's get beyond positions and platitudes and get to substance.