President Obama said that he is “in a lot of ways” less liberal than Republican President Nixon

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20. The problem is that we do see him how he is, but the right sees him how Fox says he is...

... a "socialist", so it's no wonder that he suffers in the polls and that other Third Wayers suffered the same fate.

They wind up with the right wing hating him in a partisan fashion, and us progressives not heavily supporting him when he frequently works against our interests.

At some point Dems trying to say they're "conservative" in efforts to try and overcome this situation will realize that this is what is losing the Dems power now.

Get your base to believe in you and lock down their votes and increase their turnout, and then work very hard to show why conservative agenda is failing many on the right to the point that they're voting for things like minimum wage if they actually do vote for their own interests instead of what they're being "told" to vote for by the corporate media and the Republicans. Ultimately when the country sees the value in populism again, they'll realize the corporatists in both parties have failed them.

Social issues, etc. may still divide us in some areas, but if you have politicians that work in a populist fashion, it will prevent the corporate shills from buying off both parties a lot more when that happens.