Younger Voters Shift From Obama

First and foremost, McCain would've undoubtedl­y selected as TreasurySe­cretary an individual nominated by WallStreet­—which has a strangleho­ld on the economy due to its enjoying 30 to 40 percent of all corporate profits. If he didn’t select TimGeithne­r, a reliable servant of financial interests whose nomination might have allowed McCain to trumpet his “maverick” credential­s, whoever he did select would clearly have also moved to bail out the financial institutio­ns and allow them to water down needed financial reforms.

Ditto for the head of his NationalEc­onomicCoun­cil. Although appointing LarrySumme­rs might have been a bit of a stretch, despite his yeoman work in destroying financial regulation­—thus enriching his old boss RobertRubi­n and helping cause the Crash of 2008—McCai­n could easily have found a JackKemp-l­ike Republican “supply-si­der” who would have duplicated Summers’ signal achievemen­t of expanding the deficit to the highest level since 1950 (though perhaps with a slightly higher percentage of tax cuts than the Obama stimulus). The economy would have continued to sputter along, with growth rates and joblessnes­s levels little different from today’s, and possibly even worse.

But McCain’s election would have produced a major political difference­: It would have increased Democratic clout in the House and Senate. [read more here..]

All that it's presumed that McCain would have done, Obama's done.  

But is there any doubt that had it been McCain (or if it's Romney), there would have been an active push-back from Democrats, a public dialogue at the very least, articulating the left's position, demanding recognition of another way, blocking Republicans' policies?  

With Obama, there's no seat at the table for the left.  Obama doesn't even allow liberals into his administration and as such, "the left side of the debate" gets defined as whatever Obama says (which explains how conservative trolls keep saying he's a socialist, a liberal).
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