An unpopular, liberal sheen on a relatively centrist agenda

Back in 2008, the smart liberal spin on "post-partisanship" is that it was in part an effort to put a popular, centrist sheen on a relatively liberal agenda. Instead what Obama has wound up with is an unpopular, liberal sheen on a relatively centrist agenda.

-- Post-Partisanship Epic Fail?, Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com