Let's cut to the chase. Obama's success in the general will be to mask his leftist agenda until AFTER the election. If he can do that he will win. If he can't he will lose. That's the whole ballgame in a nutshell.
I doubt he could be that leftist. Like all successful leftists, my hunch is that a President Obama would be, pragmatically, center-left. It is possible to accomplish ideals that way
Dave
I continue telling people to stop listening to his siren words and take a minute to look at his track record. How can someone who has voted on his party line for 97% of contentious votes be the "great bipartisan mediator" he claims to be? If anything, to me he surely seems like the worst kind of politician: instead of telling you to your face that he disagrees with you, he tries to placate with his words while signing partisanship with his signature.
All Obama's Senate record tells me is that he's opposed the Republican line on 97% of contentious votes and why should he not if he feels the GOP line is taking America in what he feels to be the wrong direction
Obama is trying to set a more positive tone and change direction away from the politics of divisiveness that has, arguably, hindered progress and taken America BACK. More importantly, I don't hear either he or Clinton making a big thing of ideology in this campaign; at least, to the extent the Republicans had been trying to outdo each other as to who and who isn't the most conservative
. That was enough to turn me off for starters
As President, if he is to get things done, Obama will have to compromise with congressional Republicans to some extent, depending on the political state of Congress, and, unfortunately, moderate, let alone liberal, Republicans are a dying breed
Dave
