Obama a Socialist? No!

Maybe James Carville should hang it up. With the ascendancy of Barack Obama, Carville wrote the following book: "40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation". He's obviously no psychic.

Now, he's taken up polling, only to find out that Democrats will not be ruling for the next 40 years after all. And horror of horrors, he has discovered that the American people associate President Obama with the dreaded "S" word.

Read from National Review:

55 Percent of Likely Voters Find ‘Socialist’ an Accurate Label of Obama?
By Jim Geraghty

"The latest poll by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, has Republicans leading on the generic ballot among likely voters, 48 percent to 42 percent.

Deep in the poll, they ask, 'Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.'

On 'too liberal,' 35 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama 'very well,' 21 percent say 'well,' 21 percent say 'not too well,' and 17 percent say 'not well at all.' In other words, 56 percent of likely voters consider Obama too liberal.

When asked about 'a socialist,' 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama 'very well,' 22 percent say 'well,' 15 percent say 'not too well,' and 25 percent say 'not well at all.'

In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think 'socialist' is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama."