Obama Campaign Turns Attention to Santorum
By Sandhya Somashekhar February 17, 2012 Excerpts Rick Santorum’s surprising momentum at a critical stage in the presidential race has forced the Obama campaign to...
By Sandhya Somashekhar February 17, 2012 Excerpts Rick Santorum’s surprising momentum at a critical stage in the presidential race has forced the Obama campaign to...
Summary: A psychological profile of U.S. President Barack Obama, developed at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics during Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, reveals that the president is a highly confident, moderately accommodating and deliberative, somewhat reserved personality type best described as a confident conciliator. Specifically, Obama is primarily an Ambitious/confident personality, complemented by secondary Accommodating/cooperative, Conscientious/respectful, and Retiring/reserved features. Obama’s personality profile provides a stable framework for anticipating his likely leadership style as president, as outlined in this report of how Obama will govern, if reelected.
Barack Obama’s primary personality patterns are found to be Ambitious/confident and Dominant/asserting, with secondary features of the Accommodating/cooperative and Conscientious/respectful patterns. The combination of Ambitious and Accommodating patterns in Obama’s profile suggests a “confident conciliator” personality composite.
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