In 2004, W's 51% election was called a MANDATE. In 2013, Terry Mac **SQUEAKED** by with a bigger %.

[LaydeeBug]

THIS is why we should should be putting this IN THEIR FUCKING FACE. The links only prove the %, the title alone made the point.


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/


http://www.policymic.com/articles/71883/2013-election-results-live-updates-and-polls-from-nj-va-and-nyc

[zbdent]

1. Don't forget ... Obama didn't have a "landslide"

even though the RWers were predicting an electoral "landslide" for Romney with fewer ...

Also, in 2002, there were three repugs who won in "traditional" Dem states, media went apes*it ...

In 2006 ... same three were turned over to Dems ... very little news coverage, despite the "liberal bias" ...

[liberal N proud]

2. Thats the librul media

[Dawson Leery]

3. Bush never had a mandate.

[LaydeeBug]

4. To hear the corpo media after election '04, you would have thought it

and THEY said it. THEY said, "Mandate".

We are stomping around here parsing numbers and complaining it's not enough.

There is more to be done...but we had a great night.

And we should have no problem saying so.

edit: typo

[NuclearDem]

5. Well, they wanted Bush to feel good about himself.

"I know it was only 51%, but call it a mandate. I promised Georgie way-back ice cream as well."

[LaydeeBug]

6. and an extra bag of pretzels. nt

[NuclearDem]

7. Sorry, Georgie, we can't have "petzels" anymore.

[hooverville29]

8. TMac got 48%. His GOP + Libertarian opponents got 52%.

It's hard to build a mandate argument on a 48% vote when your opponents (both ideologically opposed to you) get 52%.

Remember, Sarvis and the Libertarians didn't join in with Cuccinelli because they felt he wasn't conservative *enough,* which speaks volumes about where they were on the political spectrum. Any way you cut it, the right wing side of the political spectrum in Virginia got 52% of the vote.

[doc03]

9. You sound like Limbaugh after Bill Clinton beat GHWB and

Ross Perot. Clinton was never a legitimate president according to Limbaugh because he got less than 50% of the vote in a three candidate Field.