Obama has governed from the left, but the country, as Galston notes, has shifted to the right.
Mr Obama is not really a policy moderate; he campaigned, and has governed, from the centre-left of his party, not from its Blue Dog right flank.
A president who had governed from a statehouse, as most of Obama's recent predecessors have done, might have grasped right away the need to take the case to the local level, repeating the same argument for investment at every ribbon-cutting ceremony the White House could find.
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In contrast, whatever his personal views, Obama has governed from the political center since he was inaugurated.
Bush argues that President Obama has governed from a "One Ideology, One Party, and One Man" perspective -- "a centralized, planned, command-and-control government".
Three generations of the family have governed India, from the first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv.
So successful was post-war American foreign policy and so devastated its communist adversaries by our stellar economic success that today nearly all emulate the commercial principles that have governed this country from its inception.
Also on Saturday, the Iraqi Parliament rejected a bill that would have governed the presence of troops from Britain, Australia and other countries beyond the end of the year.
The governor's posture toward Occupy Albany, along with his opposition to a so-called millionaires' tax in New York State, has highlighted a potential vulnerability on the left for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who has governed mostly from the center.
