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In reply to the discussion: As most of us thought, Obama is a center, center right president [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)John McCain drew more votes than the margin of error predicted in enough states that if such an "unusual coincidence" had happened in a closer election, McCain would have won.
Our political process is stolen, but it still has to be close enough to steal.
That is the secret of this President's success: he is a populist President, tacking close to the center in order to build an overwhelming base of support that cannot be statistically explained away.
We simply don't know how liberal this President is because we've never given him an opportunity to get something done with a supportive Congress. And yet he has exceeded the expectations of me and most other serious political watchers.
Even this election (and I'm still convinced President Obama is on a 400+ electoral vote trajectory) won't be able to clear enough Republicans out of the Senate to prevent that body from being used as a delay tool. We'll have to wait until 2014 for that.
Can you not see that the President's "moderate" position is a necessity borne of our fixed election system, and the criminal ways of his political opponents? Why do so many of you have trouble understanding that?