Q: Bob Novak, is 51 percent of the vote really a mandate? NOVAK: Of course it is. It’s a 3.5 million vote margin.
Krauthammer: And now that he’s been elected with a large majority, or a significant majority, and with a mandate, I think part of that mandate is to get the right judges, by his likes.
Claremont Institute:What emerged from the 2004 election was a moral consensus, and with it, something we might call a mandate. But it is not the mandate some are talking about.
USA Today:Even so, President Bush will sit down with his Cabinet at 10 a.m. today to begin his second term with a clearer and more commanding mandate than he held for the first
SF Chronicle: Bush claims mandate, sets 2nd-term goals / 'I earned capital in this campaign, political capital.
Yes, it basically depends on whether your side won or not but let's not pretend it never happened.
Can you cut the crap already? :p
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"Nobody called 2004 a mandate"........say what?
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