Will Barack Obama be remembered as the Democrats' Nixon?

[Indy Texas]

Nixon assembled a winning political coalition based on what was at the time the fastest growing voting bloc (middle class suburban whites) and picking up new coalition groups (Southerners, blue collar whites), and began the long-term dismantling of the New Deal Coalition. Later on, Reagan articulated a vision to keep that coalition together and more or less dealt a death blow to the New Deal Coalition.

Like Nixon, Obama's coalition relies heavily on fast-growing groups (Hispanics, immigrants) and has made inroads in groups that were once the province of Republicans (the Rocky Mountain states, northern Whites). He will likely continue to use fiscal and national security issues in a way that will pit members of the GOP's three-legged stool (social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and hawks) against each other. Like Nixon, he has an antagonistic relationship with a radicalized opposition party and Americans have a somewhat polarized view of him. Is some other Democrat going to come along in a decade or so who will be the Reagan to Obama's Nixon, who crystallizes that coalition, becomes a near-universally liked figure and kills off Reagan's own long-term coalition?