Obama: Demographic Trends

White House Dept: The president has been re-elected, demographic trends favor the growth of his coalition, his party has a technological edge, and his opposition is confused and divided. One might therefore expect Obama to be enacting the legislative agenda of that rising coalition. Yet the White House has to be disappointed, whatever it says, by the way the second term has been going, according to Winnipeg Free Press. And liberal policy gains have been sparse, and mostly unrelated to Obama. His campaign for new gun regulations is fizzling out and not, primarily, because of opposition from the Republican House or filibuster threats from Republican senators. Harry Reid, the leader of the Senate Democrats, has kept an assault-weapons ban out of the gun bill because it had fewer than 40 supporters. That in a chamber that has 55 Democrats. The main gun legislation now under consideration is a proposal for universal background checks that is filled with exemptions and President Barack Obama second term has so far been a story of high liberal hopes and scant liberal achievements. The president poll numbers have been falling since December, for one thing. His average job-approval rating, compiled on Pollster.com, has been below 50 per cent for weeks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.