I want a Constitutional Amendment banning Mandates

[KurtNYC]

If I hear one more pundit talk about a mandate I will scream (actually I already screamed so I will scream again).

Tuesday saw the largest number of Americans ever to vote AGAINST a sitting president.

If a significant portion thought they were voting against gay marriage then what action does that require?? It is not recognized/legal NOW. What change is mandated by supporting the status quo?

Mandate is a big word; probably confusing to some. Could probably convince those that if someone has a couple of "mandates" they will be well on their way to a gay marriage.

(just kidding about the amendment btw)

[Avalux]

1. M&Ms

Mandates and Morals. YEE HAW!!!!!!!

:puke: :mad:

[Wabbajack]

2. JFK said

A 1 vote victory is a mandate.

[sui generis]

4. well, he couldn't be right about everything. /nt

[Wabbajack]

8. If Kerry had won by the same margin

and Fox News said he didn't have a mandate and should govern from the center what would you say?

[sui generis]

9. I would agree.

If we had won by a slim majority we would not have a mandate.

However! What I think the center is and what those nutjobs on the other side of the aisle think extreme left is are probably the same.

I don't believe that the "center" of America is about religion in government or bigotry or profligant spending. If that's too liberal for the extreme right then would seem like we were exercising a mandate.

America is not a land of conservatives or liberals. Most people really are somewhere in the middle, and conservative doesn't always mean socially conservative.

[LisaLynne]

3. This is what we need, though --

a way to come back hard and fast on a national level that MORE PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST * than have ever voted against a sitting president since Wilson, and this dude was running as the supposedly sacred "war president". He's divided the country even more deeply now. He has no friggin' mandate from 55 million of the people!

[Mistress Quickly]

5. but when you say that

a lot of people will think "Wow, and boosh still got more votes than that"

could backfire

[LoZoccolo]

6. I don't have time to sift through the numbers, but...

...isn't it also possible that we saw the narrowest margin to re-elect an incumbent as well? I can't really think of any elections where it was like 51%-49% like this.

[Search Party]

7. 48% IRATE! 51% mandate?

mandate my ass!