cg: The test gives underlying motivations, the ones they show on the website are based on actual positions. The fact is that America is very, very far to the right as its baseline, and Obama isn't actually doing much about that or challenging the basis of the super-rich and corporate power being the main driving forces in society.
I'd bet that if Obama did the test himself he'd come out somewhere in the middle of the lower left quadrant. Due to the dominant economic theories all being very free-market based, even someone who is mostly in favour of a thriving, competitive market of small businesses and low personal taxation might well come out as to the left of a bunch of politicians who are happy to watch transnational companies turning a free market system into an oligarchy and sit on their asses.
NA: It's my corrupting influence, everyone seems to head left after a while on here.
