Mr Obama has already outlined the most ambitious agenda for transforming America since the Reagan revolution: proposing universal health care, expanding the role of the federal government in education, tackling global warming and reducing America's growing inequalities. This has ignited a fierce debate about his ideology. Is he an unreconstructed liberal who will provide the left's answer to Ronald Reagan? Or is he a New Democrat, as he himself claims? The answer is probably a mixture of the two. Mr Obama is a pragmatic liberal, more confident about big government than Bill Clinton's New Democrats, but less wedded to liberal solutions than many of the old lions in his party.

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