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Barack Obama's Victory Was Not a Mandate for Liberalism - Sam Dealey (usnews.com)

skippy the bush kangaroo found this 11/6/2008 on usnews.com

So how should Democrats interpret last night's victories? Not as the broad mandate for liberalism that many of them would hope it to be. Chiefly, Barack Obama ran most effectively as a moderate Republican. While he had plenty of big-money, liberal proposals (such as expanding healthcare), the ...