Another Question I Do Not Have Time to Ask Alice Rivlin

Barack Obama came into office hoping to follow:

Mitt Romney���s health care policy
John McCain���s climate Policy
Bill Clinton���s tax policy
George H.W. Bush���s foreign policy
Gerald Ford���s concern for avoiding too high-pressure an economy
Ronald Reagan���s optimism

with

a very strong belief that here were no ed states and no Blue states, only purple states.

What should Obama have done differently?