Obama has a Mandate right?

[MsTryska]

52% of the popular vote according to Yahoo.

[El Fuego]

1. He has a mandate not to SUCK.

[BeFree]

2. WE have the mandate

Its us he's most worried about. Are we going to seize the power he has grabbed for us, or will we slack off and allow them to rise up again?

He can't do much without us. We have to back him up.

[seabeyond]

3. we have work to do. IF he does a good job by 2012 there will be in reelection. gotta

earn it.

[texasleo]

4. Bet your ass!

[LisaL]

5. You betcha.

[Enthusiast]

6. He certainly does have a mandate!

Bush came into office claiming a mandate in 2000 when he actually lost the popular vote. Of course we don't want Obama to emulate Bush in any way.

[stevietheman]

7. By the Dubya 2004 standard, Obama has a SUPER MANDATE. n/t

n/t

[progressoid]

11. A Super Duper Mandate! n/t

[NewJeffCT]

12. But, that only applies to Republicans

for a Democrat to have a mandate, every voter must have voted for Obama, including the ones that were eligible to register, but did not.

[WeDidIt]

8. Yes He Does!

:evilgrin:

[kennetha]

9. Mandates are oversold in politics

What matters is that you win the stage and when you win the stage, you have to perform. If you don't the next guy gets a try. We've won the stage. Now is time to perform, time to deliver. If we deliver what we promise to deliver and it achieves what we say it will achieve, we get to keep the stage the next time around.

So really, don't worry about mandates. That's just a parlor game. Worry instead about getting done what we want get done while we have the stage and establishing that it was the right thing to do, that it brought about what we said it would bring about.

[MsTryska]

10. I'm with you on that!

just wanted to clarify this mandate thing.