Originally Posted by Botnst

There's a cottage industry among political NGO's scoring politicians on various votes. You can get them from NRA, NOW, AFL-CIO, etc, ad nauseam. As far as Obama is concerned, both liberal and conservative groups tagged him as a very liberal senator.

He never ran from the label, to my knowledge. Instead he just let other people screech about it until the all got tired.

Then he got elected. The voters define what is left vs what is right, not the pundits. The voters, on average, voted for Obama. He his the new middle ground.

End Of Story.