Obama moves toward center, but will he stay there?

(CNN) -- In the aftermath of the midterms, President Obama acknowledged the "shellacking" handed to him and his party.

"I've got to take direct responsibility for the fact that we have not made as much progress as we need to make," he said the day after the GOP slapped Democrats with the worst congressional beating in more than half a century.

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