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In the spirit of being a uniter, not a divider, and bipartisanship
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Originally posted by sgtclub
That's not what was being said after Clinton's 1996 victory, but I tend to agree with you on this point, when viewed in isolation. However, when you look at the trends since 1994, the country has moved significantly to the right. The GOP captured the house for the first time in generations. Several years later, the GOP captured the Senate (for good). The GOP expanded its majorities in the 2002 election, and again in the 2004 election. There is currently a GOP president and the GOP currently controls both houses of Congress by a comfortable margin. I'm not sure how this can be read except as a mandate, at least for the GOP as a whole.
But I'll ask the question again to all who disagree. What constitutes a mandate?
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Ragean's defeat of Mondale was a mandate. Reconcile that one to this election.
You can argue all you fucking like, but when almost half the voters vote against you, you don't have a mandate. What you have is shrewd political handlers. Bush's people were miles smarter than the Dems in how they ran the campaign, but their success isn't a mandate. A mandate is when the overwhelming majority of all voters vote for you. That did not happen here.
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