As most of us thought, Obama is a center, center right president [View all]

[MadHound]

But on Friday, political scientist Keith Poole released a study that probably cheered the White House. According to his highly respected classification system, Obama is the most moderate Democratic president since World War II. Which raises a question: How can Obama simultaneously be one of the most divisive and most moderate presidents of the past century?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-the-most-polarizing-moderate-ever/2012/02/06/gIQAXsV0uQ_story.html

Of course Obama's presidency is but the capstone of an ongoing movement by Democratic presidents post WWII, moving ever further to the right. They get away with this because the conventional wisdom is that the Democratic party can basically ignore the left, after all, who else are they going to vote for, the Republican?

If this trend continues, makes you wonder, and for some, a bit scared of what position the next Democratic president is going to govern from. Obama governs from the same position as Eisenhower, what's next, a Democratic president governing from the position of Bush I, Ford, or Nixon?

And thus, the country continues its march to the right.