Richard Wolffe owned Nohra O'Donnell: she DID NOT PLAY Obama saying he got 52% and a mandate

[LittleApple81]

but when he said that 46% of the population did not vote for him and that leaders can be humble and work with the other party...Then she said something like she was glad that he recognized the fact that it was something a narrow victory (paraphrasing). Wolffe said: it would be interesting to compare the attitude that Bush showed in 2004 when he had less than half the advantage Obama got and he did not hesitate in claiming a mandate and not showing any inclination to work with the Democrats. She was silent. Changed the subject. Just great.

[yardwork]

1. A somewhat narrow victory? LOL!

Let them go around saying that if they feel better.

[Mira]

2. Can you just HEAR Richard say "Attitude" - I love that man

[alsame]

3. The GOP claims a mandate if they win by 1 single vote. n/t

[yardwork]

5. Make that steal it by one single vote.

[alsame]

8. You're right.

[FrenchieCat]

4. That's 53% to you! :)

[Tribetime]

6. close to 9 million is razor thin?

[Sebass1271]

11. exact numbers please..

i want to throw it to a freeper face.. what is the exact number Obama won?

[Greyskye]

14. 8,941,036 margin for Obama per Wikipedia

Popular vote
Obama: 68,167,910
McCain: 59,226,874

Percentage
Obama: 52.8%
McCain: 45.9%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

[LiberalFighter]

18. Obama had about 2.97 times the difference in votes than Bush in 2004

[Jennicut]

7. Funny how Obama got a bigger victory both times then Shrub and

the Rethugs all said we had a freakin mandate. Whatever, Obama really does have one.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Reason #4,487 not to watch that crap network. nt

[City Lights]

10. Darn, I missed it!

Sounds like a spectacular smack down!

Thanks for the report...:-)

[No Elephants]

12. Sorry, but who are these people?

[WinkyDink]

13. Civics lesson for Nora: The Popular Vote per se doesn't elect a President.

She can ask "Gore", as she ALWAYS referred to the former Vice-President (remember her flow-charts of his lawyers?? I do. She's a "rhymes with 'rich'," as Bar would say).

[Cha]

15. Rec'd~ Media Reform is next..these heads

have to do a little homework if they want to keep up with Obama.

[amitta]

16. can't find anything in the constitution about "mandate"

you win, you have a mandate. the end.

[unblock]

19. nope! winning only gets you the title, the office, the salary.

being able to get your prefered legislation passed, that's a whole nother story.

that's where things like margin of victory, which states you won, which states you can win again in 4 years, etc., matter.

[LiberalFighter]

17. What can be expected from No Brain O'Donnell?