Republicans portray Obama as being a radical liberal, if not
outright socialist. So, how liberal is
Obama compared to other U.S. presidents?
As it turns out, Obama is pretty much a moderate.
In a recent study, political scientists Keith Poole and
Christopher Hare at the University of Georgia examined roll call votes in
Congress in which the sitting president expressed clear support or opposition
for a specific bill to determine how liberal/conservative presidents were in
their policy positions going back to Truman. See here for an
explanation of the methodology: http://www.voteview.com/dwnomjoint.asp
Poole and Hare determined that “President Obama is the most moderate Democratic president since the end
of World War II, while President George W. Bush was the most conservative
president in the post-war era.”
The chart below and here http://voteview.com/blog/?p=317
shows the ranking of ranking of all presidents since Truman.
Check it out. Obama
is just about as much a liberal as Ike was a conservative.
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