Only Republicans get mandates, silly

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(I didn't write this, I copied it from another forum, with the original writer's express permission.)

In 2004, President Bush was re-elected by netting 286 electoral votes, just 16 votes over the magic number of 270. He beat John Kerry by 3.3 million votes.

Now, in 2008, Obama wins with a minimum of 349 -- 79 EVs over 270. Obama won the popular by a minimum of 7 million votes. That's five times the EV margin of Bush and more than double Bush's popular vote margin.

Bush's victory in 2004 was the "smallest popular-vote margin since 1976 (excluding the 2000 election) and the lowest electoral vote count for an incumbent president's re-election since Woodrow Wilson drew 277 electoral votes in 1916."

Funny thing, though. What did the "librul media" call Bush's near-death experience? Why, silly ones, the librul media called it...


A Mandate


BOSTON GLOBE: "a clear mandate to advance a conservative agenda over the next four years."
- 04 Nov 04

LA TIMES: "Bush can claim a solid mandate of 51 percent of the vote."
- 04 Nov 04

USA Today: "Clear Mandate Will Boost Bush's Authority, Reach,"
- 04 Nov 04

NY TIMES: "A president who won by a whisker four years ago... was within striking distance of an electoral vote mandate for a second term."
- 04 Nov 04

MSNBC host Chris Matthews: "President Bush wins the majority of the vote and a mandate for his second term."
- 03 Nov 04

CNN's Wolf Blitzer: Bush is "going to say he's got a mandate from the American people, and by all accounts he does."
- 03 Nov 04

WALL STREET JOURNAL: voters "give President Bush what by any measure is a decisive mandate for a second term."
- 04 Nov 04

NPR: "The president's people are calling this a mandate. By any definition I think you could call this a mandate."
- 04 Nov 04

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And what is the media calling Obama's decisive victory? Are they calling it a break from the Reublican's radical right wing ideology? Of course not -- they aren't even calling it a mandate.

From The Politico:

"Obama’s victory does not signal a shift in ideology in this country. It signals that the American public has grown weary of ideologies."

But when Bush wins by the skin of his cowardly nose, it's "a clear mandate to advance a conservative agenda over the next four years."

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1. K&R

and bookmarked.

[The Magistrate]

2. But We Know, Sir, It Is A Mandate Repudiating Conservative Ideology

That is what every person voting for President Obama was consciously doing at some level, and to some extent. The actual sentiment of the populace will tell out in the coming months and years. People know what they did.

"Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!"

[codjh9]

3. A 'CLEAR MANDATE' in 2004?!?!?!?!!? He BARELY FUCKIN' WON (And actually cheated in OH)

[treestar]

4. K&R

:kick:

[progressoid]

5. Mandate - that's sooo post 9/11 pre maverick thinking.

[Rocknrule]

6. The only mandates they will be getting

are 300 lb prison inmates with a Viagra addiction

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7. wow - great line

I'm going to have to post that on the original site I got this from, if you don't mind.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. K&R

[texpatriot2004]

9. Thanks for this post on "mandates" nm