If you study some of Clinton's stands, you will see that he is not very far left at all. He is one of the core members of the "third way" which is a rebranding of center-leftists. He is far from a socialist. You may FEEL that he is far left, but the reality is something different.

The political spectrum in America is different from most Westernized countries. We are far more to the right than the rest of them.