[clue-talk] it's over!

[David Rudder]

On Nov 5th, 2004, GWBush said:
"Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, 
political capital, and now I intend to spend it"
He didn't use the word "mandate", but a lot of Republicans were. 

A funny quote: James Carville, a Democrat, was quoted as saying "The 
only person with a mandate is Jim Greevey".  HA!!!!  Mandate?!?!  
Man-date!!!


One big difference is that GWBush won 2004 on "character issues".  Obama 
won on "policy issues".  The voters clearly voted for Obama because of 
his economic plan, and to a lesser extent his plan for Iraq.  He has a 
clear mandate on those issues.  GWBush had a clear mandate on abortion, 
gay marriage, etc., which he failed to address.

Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
> But now both of you who have said basically the same thing, so...
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> Am I looking at the wrong news sources?  As far as I can tell:
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> 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?
>
> Certainly the popular news media is calling this a mandate, but that's
> no surprise.  From a critical perspective: is this a mandate?  And
> which numbers make it clearly so?
>
> Greg
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