I think the answer is Goods came to the Roman Republic from several regions outside of Italy.
You don't want people to walk all over you. You want to be able to be treated the same as everyone else. It isn't fair if you get a lower pay just because you have a different skin tone, religion, gender, etc. It's important to fight so that way you can be happy and also have some control over your life. If you just let people push you down and tell you you can't do something because of a superficial or racist reason, you won't get the opportunity to accomplish everything you want to.
I think you started high school in 2008 because there is 4 years in high school (freshman, sophomore,junior, and senior) so if you subtract the 4 years from 2012 you would get 2008.
First answer is: extreme.
Second answer is: middle.
If candidate wants to be recognize by voters, at the begining he must have extreme ideas, but for general elections majority of voters have middle and not so extreme opinion. Recent example is last presidential campaign in USA in 2016.