特别是，总统奥巴马仍有能力以兼为左翼自由主义理想派和中间道路理想主义派的身份赢得支持，这是他能够在经济疲软、劳动力市场更加疲软的情况下赢得连任。
President Barack Obama, in particular, has been able to attract support as a liberal-left idealist and as a centrist-realist at the same time, which enabled him to win re-election in the face of a weak economy and an even weaker labor market.