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A DEMOCRAT sits in the Oval Office, preparing to run for re-election. Barack Obama is aformidable campaigner and fund-raiser. In 2008 his campaign raised a record $745m; thistime his haul may exceed $1 billion. Gearing up to oppose him are a squabbling bunch ofRepublicans, united in relative obscurity save for the front-runner, Mitt Romney. By rights theleft-leaning Netroots Nation gathering should have been jubilant, and the Republican LeadershipConference doleful and panicky. 一位民主党人坐镇椭圆办公室，准备竞选连任。巴拉克?奥巴马是一个可畏的活动家和筹款人。2008年，他的竞选活动筹集到创纪录的7.45亿美元;而这次，这一数字可能超过10亿美元。准备迎战的是一群内讧的共和党人，暂时以隐约的领跑者米特?罗姆尼为首。按理说，这时左倾的草根网民大会应该喜气洋洋，而共和党领袖大会则愁闷惊慌。 But that would overlook the lefts capacity to rain on its own parade. Despite the bigDemocratic reforms of the past few years, the leftor at least the roughly 2,400 lefty bloggerswho attended Netroots Nationoften sees the Obama administration as hesitant andincrementalist. Joan McCarter, who moderated a panel called What to Do When the President isJust Not That Into You , said that MrObama has been not necessarily as progressive as we hoped he would be. 然而这种想法忽视了左派的内部分歧。尽管民主党在过去几年进行了重大改革，但左派常常认为奥巴马政府不够果决，是渐进主义者。琼?麦卡特，一个名为当总统其实没那么在乎你时该做什么的座谈小组的主持者，表示奥巴马先生没有我们所希望的那么进步。 | 
