[clue-talk] it's over!

[Michael Fierro]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:46:54 -0700
 
> Obama got 52% of the popular vote while  McCain got 46% of the popular
> vote. In 2004 Bush got 51% to Kerry's 48%.  We didn't call Bush's win
> in 2004 a mandate. Are 3 percentage points really that big of a
> difference?

I think that Obama's popular vote total is going to definitely be a mandate. A difference of 6% is huge. Right now, according to cnn.com, the margin is more than 7 million people for Obama. A total of 62.9 million votes. That definitely indicates a mandate to me.

The huge disparity in the electoral votes bears this out. Obama has 349 electoral votes so far! Even if he doesn't get any more, that is a landslide victory. That also seems to indicate a mandate to me.

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