bballrox4717
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Political Matrix
E: -4.13, S: -3.65
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« on: May 19, 2013, 09:29:27 AM » |
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From left to right
LBJ
Obama
JFK
Truman
Carter
Clinton
Eisenhower
Ford
Nixon
Bush Sr
Bush
Reagan
LBJ is an obvious first for civil rights push and the Great Society. Obama is an easy second based on the social and foreign policy issues he has pushed in his time as president, as well as health care reform. JFK and Truman seem pretty interchangeable, though we don't know if JFK pushes through the same things as LBJ if he lived. Carter was liberal on foreign policy, but was quite conservative socially and was pretty typical economically when it came to New Deal Democrats. His criticism of George McGovern as being too liberal stands out to me. The most conservative Democrat was probably Clinton.
For the most liberal Republican, it's pretty close between Ford and Eisenhower, but Ike was more of an economic liberal than Ford as a social liberal. Bush Sr in the 70's was probably more moderate than Nixon himself, but had moved to the right by the time he was president. Nixon ran as a conservative but continuously catered to Democratic demands. It was tough between Reagan and Bush Jr for the most conservative, but Bush Jr never really embraced conservatism the way Reagan did. Bush Jr was less conservative than his Congress while Reagan was more conservative, which wins Reagan the title of most conservative.
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