For Democrats looking to post-Obama era, how populist a future? (Unit 2)

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Democrats are now looking towards the future in deciding who will later become their new party leader. Their more moderate political views have not entirely changed their beliefs, only which they strive more towards innovation. Since Obama has taken office, it has raised a question whether the Democratic Party has altered their views to a more liberal standpoint.  A Gallup Poll surveying democrats demonstrated how liberalism has expanded among democrats in 14 years with an increase of 14 percent since 2000. In a poll, that ABC-News had people answer questions ranging from favorable or unfavorable impressions of certain candidates to which candidate they would vote for in the 2016 presidential election. The results showed that most of the surveyors would vote for Hilary Rodham Clinton, but astonishingly, the surveyors would think of themselves as an independent. This kind of surprises me since I would not have had considered some of Americans to be independent but as either democrats or republicans. In the end, the Democratic Party is unsure of whom their next leader will be but I would strongly agree to have Hilary Rodham Clinton be the next democratic leader. 

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