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Obama is also not a leftist. Sanders, Nina Turner or Keith Ellison are the bare minimum that one could consider a leftist.

• beaconstudios 9y ago
  I think there's a difference between someone who is left, and someone who is a leftist. Leftist tends to be used to label communists and socialists, where "the left" generally includes progressives, social democrats, and so on. It's a pretty subjective concept though and easy to split hairs on. You could reasonably call Obama or Clinton centrists.
  • boyce 9y ago
    In Britain or Germany they both would be more moderate conservatives
    • beaconstudios 9y ago
      I think Obama's campaign rhetoric would have been in line with the British Labour Party, but his actual policies were definitely moderate conservative. Probably similar to Cameron.