You may call it, erroneously I think, the center. It is more like nowhere or noaware.
You may be right (or reich :p). However, when was the last time an ‘extreme’ candidate was elected to the Oval Office?
The bottom line, like it or not, is that you have to get there in order to carry out your agenda and despite the carping of presidential critics, many things which get blamed on the president are (in reality) more in the purview of Congress than the Executive branch. The nature of the Presidency (so much *apparent* power concentrated in the hands of a single person) causes a disproportionate amount of scrutiny to be trained on that office compared to (say) SCOTUS, where nine unelected and essentially unaccountable persons (and often a small subset in the case of a split decision that becomes precedent) have the power to make sweeping changes that affect the legal climate in this country for generations.
