Obama – progressive democrat or liberal republican?

Democratic candidate United States President Barack Obama waves to the crowd following a rally in Concord, New Hampshire, USA 04 November 2012. United States President Barack Obama faces Republican candidate for United States President Mitt Romney in the national election on 06 November 2012. EPA/CJ GUNTHER

“Obama will have a second term during which he’ll be able to prove that he is a progressive Democrat and not just another liberal Republican,” Barber - who acted as a political advisor to the then President Bill Clinton and as a foreign policy adviser to Democrat Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential campaign – tells Polish Radio's Wojtek Cegielski, who is in Chicago following the last days of the US elections campaign.

Americans go to the polls on 6 November in what, opinion polls indicate, will be another nail-biting election, with key, swing, states, on a knife-edge.

See more on the US elections here. (pg)