United StatesBarack Obama served as the forty-fourth president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, the first African American to hold the office. His administration passed the Affordable Care Act and favored multilateral diplomacy.
In the 12 Axes register, Barack Obama leans hardest on Assimilationist – Multiculturalist: Multiculturalist 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Barack Obama sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centrist
Used federal power within existing federalism
Representative Democracy
Elected president, defended voting rights
Liberal
Civil-liberties record mixed on surveillance
Cooperation
Favored alliances and multilateral agreements
Neutral
Ended Iraq deployment, expanded drone strikes
Multiculturalist
Embraced a diverse, pluralist America
Mixed Economic
Affordable Care Act within a market system
Regulationism
Dodd-Frank financial regulation
Free Trade
Negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Moderate
Protestant, supportive of secular government
Progressive
Backed same-sex marriage and health reform
Technological
Invested in clean energy and research
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Assimilationist – Multiculturalist
On Assimilationist – Multiculturalist, Barack Obama is at Multiculturalist 83%. The register median is balanced 50%.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Barack Obama is at Democratic 68%, almost the register median of Democratic 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
