President Obama spent his first 2 years in office trying to get his agenda passed by making compromises with more conservative politicians in Washington, from both Republicans and Democrats.
He was roundly ridiculed and criticized by progressives, including heavily here @ DK.
Ever since the debt ceiling debacle of this past summer, the president has shown more of a progressive, populist and less accommodating style.
But that has resulted in Americans now seeing Obama as too liberal. Yes, that's right. Believe it or not. The results are here in this Gallup poll.The results are here in this Gallup poll.
President Obama spent his first 2 years in office trying to get his agenda passed by making compromises with more conservative politicians in Washington, from both Republicans and Democrats.
He was roundly ridiculed and criticized by progressives, including heavily here @ DK.
Ever since the debt ceiling debacle of this past summer, the president has shown more of a progressive, populist and less accommodating style.
But that has resulted in Americans now seeing Obama as too liberal. Yes, that's right. Believe it or not. The results are here in this Gallup poll.
That Gallup poll shows Ron Paul and Mitt Romney as most closely aligned with American's ideology. Michelle Bachmann is actually shown as closer to American's views than Barack Obama!
Of all of the candidates today, Obama is seen as the most outside of the mainstream in that poll. It shows that Americans see him as too liberal.
What does this mean?
This means that Obama has not done a good enough job of moving to the center. Because this poll once again shows that Americans feel and affinity toward politicians who cut taxes, preach small government and back big business.
Hard to believe. But maybe we all read too much of our own like-minded news and are drinking our own Kool-Aid.
Progressives attacked Obama hard for every move he made to the Right. I hope that you can all see now why that is necessary for the POTUS to do in order to survive.
If Obama continues to move more toward the Left, you can all celebrate a politician become more progressively "pure".
But you can also start celebrating the GOP and Tea Party owning all 3 branches of the Federal Gov't come next year.
Enjoy!!