Barack Obama
Related: About this forumPoll: 26% perceive Obama policies as 'socialist', 22% as liberal
From the Political Animal blog, reporting on the latest CBS/NY Times poll:
Heres what people had to say:
Socialist: 26%
Liberal: 22%
Moderate: 28%
Conservative: 6%
Libertarian: 4%
DK/NA: 15%
AnOhioan
(2,894 posts)It boggles the mind
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)The ignorant masses.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)ncteechur
(3,071 posts)hard righties think he is socialist (26%)
most liberals and moderates think he is liberal to moderate(50%)
hard lefties think he conservative (6%)
not sure who thinks he is libertarian
Funny how only 28 percent are right.I think most Obama supporters will admit he's a Moderate.Some of us who support him are more
Liberal than he.The 26 percent who say socialist are crazy.I also think the 6 percent who say conservative and 4 percent who say
Libertarian are among the Obama Is just like Bush cwoad.
boxman15
(1,033 posts)President Obama is, and campaigned on being, a center-left pragmatist. I'd like to see him be more liberal at times, but he's doing what he said he'd do in 2008. And he's doing a damn good job at it.
But, the far-right and the right thinks he's a socialist, moderates and the not-insane right think he's a liberal, the left thinks he's a moderate, and the far-left thinks he's a conservative. So the numbers look right.