There are two reasons I don't believe he will engage in Clinton-style triangulation after this election: 1. Clinton was all about himself--he was not liberal in some ways, and he wanted to see polls showing he was popular. (I recall reading about his bitching about polls a lot to Dick Morris.) Obama is a true believer--if he's not this socialist "changer," he's nothing. His core beliefs in Alinsky and the rest of them are ALL he's got. 2. I don't think he loves the job enough to care if he doesn't win re-election. Then he can retire as a Carter-like legend in his own mind, and do what HE really wants to do--travel around collecting huge fees to read speeches to audiences of people who think exactly as he thinks, and drink in their applause and unconditional love.
All the more reason to beware Executive Orders and edicts from agencies like the EPA.