About that mandate...

Keep the above in mind when pundits declare there's no mandate here.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/1 ... at-mandate

I like that he has kept the tradition of red for liberals and blue for conservatives on his site.

On an interesting note, Obama's margin of victory as a percentage of the popular vote is very similar to Reagan's in the 1980 election. Of course, Reagan made off with 489 electoral votes instead of 332 then, and GHW Bush carried 426 electoral votes when he had a roughly 53% share of the popular vote compared to Obama's 365 when he had a similar share of the popular vote.

Clinton made off with 370 electoral votes with a 43% share of the popular vote and 379 with a 49% share of the popular vote.

All this talk of mandate when Obama fails to achieve what others before him have under similar situations is puzzling to me. From everything I can piece together regardless of how one looks at Obama in comparison to others he comes up short. I wonder why that is . . . . . .

PrintSmith wrote: I like that he has kept the tradition of red for liberals and blue for conservatives on his site.

I wonder why that is . . . . . .

And the there's the mandate we have yet to hear of from our friends clinging to the left edge by their fingernails. I am speaking of the one that Boehner and the Republicans have in the House of Representatives. It would seem that the citizens of the States deemed it proper to continue the Republican majority there to prevent the advancement of the president's radical agenda that was crammed down the throats of the populace in the wake of Obama's last victory.

Or the Republicans were able to keep a diminishing number of their majority through gerrymandering.

Obama was also the only US presidental incumbent who got less votes on his re-election.

FredHayek wrote: Obama was also the only US presidental incumbent who got less votes on his re-election.

Do you know what they call the guy that graduated last in his class in med school...







Doctor.

But probably not




My Docter

Mandate for higher taxes? Denver Post letter to the editor this morning. If you add the Libertarian vote to Romney's, 49% of Americans don't support increased taxes.