The Baracket: An Obama Legacy Tournament

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 5, 2017

 Welcome to the Brian Lehrer Show’s The Baracket: An Obama Legacy Tournament. Every day leading up to the inauguration, we’ll be pitting policies and symbolic moments from the Barack Obama presidency against each other. And you, the listener, will vote on these matchups to paint a broader picture of President Obama’s legacy.  

President Obama checks his watch during a town hall meeting for health care reform in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
((Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)/Flickr)

 

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