If we give him a MANDATE, he'd better USE IT.

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140. Eight years of slightly left is better than four years of radically left and four years of repeals

In the long run, this strategy will benefit the liberal agenda the best, as the nation overall is still quite conservative and liberal progress needs to be slow enough so that people can grow accustomed to it. If you try to go all in too soon, people will rebel and move to the other side (something like what happened in 2010 amid health care reform). If Obama went full liberal in his first 4 years and demanded abortion rights, forced a gay marriage law into Congress and such, huge amounts of people would vote straight-ticket Republican and all of those would be gone within a month of inauguration day.