I wanna know : Who is advising the President?

[kentuck]

Does he get advice from the Democratic leadership? Does anybody in the Senate or House tell him what they think should be done? Or does he only have a small cadre around him?

If there is a time that he needs to hear a friendly voice, it is now. He needs to know who is standing behind him? What does the Senate think of his decisions? What do the Democrats in Congress think? If he vetoes Republican bills, will the Democrats protect his back. He needs to know these things.

[Cleita]

1. Trolls it seems at time who are trying to undermine him.

[progressoid]

2. Democratic leadership?

We have a leadership?

[Scuba]

3. Jamie and Lloyd.

[JonLP24]

4. Several sources, I'd imagine

His advisers say he feels "liberated"

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Still, even if by happenstance, the back-to-back moves have reinforced Mr. Obama’s desire to assert himself in a period when his poll numbers and political capital are at their lowest ebbs. While losing Congress was a grievous blow that will further challenge his capacity to govern, advisers said that he feels liberated. He can now pursue his long-term agenda, they said, without being tethered to the short-term electoral concerns of his party’s leadership in Congress.

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But aides said Mr. Obama has concluded that he cannot let opposition from the other party stop him from advancing his priorities, and in his postelection comments, Mr. Obama predicted he would take actions that Republicans would not like. While White House advisers interpreted the election results as a mandate to work across the aisle, they said that cannot simply be a prescription for more gridlock where the president does nothing without Republican approval.

It is a change in tone that has been apparent to liberal activists who have often criticized Mr. Obama for being too timid and willing to compromise. Public interest groups and technology start-up executives said they saw the new dynamic at work on Monday, when they got a heads-up to watch the White House website for an announcement that would please them.

Mr. Obama’s videotaped call for a free and open Internet “completely upended the debate, and it was the kind of clear, bold statement we had been waiting for, reconnecting to that language you heard in 2008, where he came out in very stark terms in a pro-public interest way,” said Craig Aaron, the president of Free Press, an advocacy group.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/politics/down-but-not-out-obama-presses-ahead.html

As far as your questions, I think it depends on the issues. Some Democrats will go across party lines on some bills & some more than others on other bills and if it is enough to override a veto -- I think it depends and he already knows that.