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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
what did voters expect?
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Obama came into the limelight with that 2004 speech. He was well-spoken, and seemed pretty moderate. His voting record in the Senate, and back home in IL was very very far left by the usual left/right ranking schemes (the one used by the dems to rate themselves, and the reps to rank themselves tend to pretty close agreement). Least when he bothered to vote )(admittedly, a very poor sample size given his no-shows)
So he appears as a moderate, but his far-left voting record (again, using metrics the parties both use themselves) gets lost (dunno how).
Then he starts the job, and surprise, he's really far left. Was not surprising to
anyone paying attention before hand.