It's interesting you still see Obama in the middle, given all the historical and recent evidence that he is far over on the Left. You're going to vote for him again, aren't you?

Bowser isn't easy to classify. I suspect many of his positions were the result of natural combativeness here rather than how he lived his life.

The political scale has been nudged over to the Left so far that you practically have to advocate gulags or be a card-carrying Communist to qualify as "far left." Obama, who would agree with a Green Party member on every significant issue? A "moderate." Meanwhile, tea party members who basically want lower taxes and spending, and freedom to live their own lives, are next to the "lunatic fringe" on the Right.

I'm trying to figure out what happened to the old anti-Establishment radicals. When did the Fabian Socialists swallow up the hippies?