which president was more liberal

[Rob]

Nixon was a conservative who governed as a liberal. Clinton was a liberal who governed as a conservative. Frankly, I'll take the former any day of the week.

[Rob]

Clinton governed as a conservative partly because the Senate didn't give him much of a choice after the 1994 elections. Remember his plans to nationalise health care?

Yes, but after that he swung far to the right and embraced the congressional GOP agenda, albeit without some of their nuttier ideas.

I'm mildly amazed that he couldn't even break 50 percent in 1996. That should have been a resounding victory on the level of 1956, even with Perot in the race.