Liberals Only: Rate President Obama's Job Performance

[patrice]

37. There are over 300 million people in this country. There are how many liberals?

He is the Liberals' president too.

The REAL questions are about how to make that work for liberal goals*. That seems to me to be more about Liberals and their goals and how Liberal identity and goals are articulated in a way that produces progress toward those goals.

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*Which are what, btw? Yes, I know something about the answer to that question, but I'm asking for those (what??) 280 million people who are not Liberals (depending upon how we define Liberal in terms of concrete deliverables) and who would be affected by _______________________ (???) whatever it is that Liberals would do if they somehow managed to elect a liberal president.


I think polling about job performance that includes nothing of the HOW, except banks, is pretty meaningless. People can answer the same way for entirely different reasons, opposite reasons even. Maybe the problem here is that this is, as always, way more about President Obama than it should be, TOO AUTHORITY FOCUSED, TOO REACTIONARY, too top-down, than it is about Liberals themselves: who they are? what are their behaviors that construct liberalism? liberal process/hows?, liberal outcomes?