About that mandate...

There is most certainly a mandate for higher taxes than we currently have...but it did not come from this election.

The mandate comes in the form of spending the money over the last 50+ years....you know, mom and dad's elections, they mandated it for us just like we are doing 10x over for your kids (we must really hate them).

So....when do we start to change that for our kids and grand kids.....or do we just keep kicking that can down the road/

The unemployment rate has fallen below 8 percent, the housing industry is showing signs of stabilization and consumer confidence is up. But even as the economy shows signs of improving, many people in their 30s and 40s are feeling pessimistic about their ability to achieve the American dream and feel as financially secure as their parents.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy ... 1C7103236#

Martin Ent Inc wrote: The unemployment rate has fallen below 8 percent, the housing industry is showing signs of stabilization and consumer confidence is up.

Did you mean to post that?

It's a mirage. Give it time. Collapse doesn't happen overnight.

Raees wrote:

Martin Ent Inc wrote: The unemployment rate has fallen below 8 percent, the housing industry is showing signs of stabilization and consumer confidence is up.

Did you mean to post that?

:VeryScared: Backhanded compliment?

For example, rents are at record levels in the metro area! Sounds like good news unless you can't find a place to live, or it is too expensive.

Home prices have returned to the peaks of 2006 in Colorado, but is this because the banks aren't releasing enough foreclosed houses onto the market? Or not willing to sell short sale houses.

It's over your head raees, but someday it will come to you.

Term Year winner %pop. vote Margin Pop. vote Margin Electoral College runner-up Voter Turnout
37 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 57.41% 17.76% 22,821,277 7,060,023 Herbert Hoover 56.9%
38 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 60.80% 24.26% 27,752,648 11,070,786 Alf Landon 61.0%
39 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 54.74% 9.96% 27,313,945 4,966,201 Wendell Willkie 62.5%
40 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 53.39% 7.50% 25,612,916 3,594,987 Thomas E. Dewey 55.9%
41 1948 Harry S. Truman 49.55% 4.48% 24,179,347 2,188,055 Thomas E. Dewey 53.0%
42 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 55.18% 10.85% 34,075,529 6,700,439 Adlai Stevenson 63.3%
43 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 57.37% 15.40% 35,579,180 9,551,152 Adlai Stevenson 60.6%
44 1960 John F. Kennedy 49.72% 0.17% 34,220,984 112,827 Richard Nixon 62.77%
45 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 61.05% 22.58% 43,127,041 15,951,287 Barry Goldwater 61.92%
46 1968 Richard Nixon 43.42% 0.70% 31,783,783 511,944 Hubert Humphrey 60.84%
47 1972 Richard Nixon 60.67% 23.15% 47,168,710 17,995,488 George McGovern 55.21%
48 1976 Jimmy Carter 50.08% 2.06% 40,831,881 1,683,247 Gerald Ford 53.55%
49 1980 Ronald Reagan 50.75% 9.74% 43,903,230 8,423,115 Jimmy Carter 52.56%
50 1984 Ronald Reagan 58.77% 18.21% 54,455,472 16,878,120 Walter Mondale 53.11%
51 1988 George H.W. Bush 53.37% 7.72% 48,886,597 7,077,121 Michael Dukakis 50.15%
52 1992 Bill Clinton 43.01% 5.56% 44,909,806 5,805,256 George H.W. Bush 55.23%
53 1996 Bill Clinton 49.23% 8.51% 47,400,125 8,201,370 Bob Dole 49.08%
54 2000 George W. Bush 47.87% −0.51% 50,460,110 −543,816 Al Gore 51.30%
55 2004 George W. Bush 50.73% 2.46% 62,040,610 3,012,171 John Kerry 55.27%
56 2008 Barack Obama 52.87% 7.27% 69,499,428 9,549,105 John McCain 57.48%
57 2012[1] Barack Obama 50.61% 2.85% 62,616,535 3,526,460 Mitt Romney All figures TBC

at 2.85%, Obama does not even come close to his margin in the last election, nor does he come anywhere close to some of the landslides in the past. This was a very close election and cannot be called a 'mandate' by any means. The prior election might have been, but Clinton had a bigger margin, and Reagan and Nixon both put the paltry 2.85% win this time to shame. Less people voted for Obama for his second term. That hasn't happened to any previous president since Roosevelt's fourth term.

Your graphic from MSNBC only proves that they are extremely biased in their presentation of 'facts'.

Yeah, after winning by 332 / 208 electoral, and ALL of the battleground states except one, (including Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, etc.) I can see where you would think he doesn't have a mandate...