Then amend the Constitution so that there's one vote per square mile. Good luck with that.
The definition per WIKI: mandate - the power granted by an electorate. He was elected to office. The amount of the margin of the win doesn't matter. So what definition are you using?What do you think?
This is a loaded question, loaded with blanks. If the GOPers hadn't so politically childish and ignorant, they would not have obstructed Baroke Oblamer's destructive agenda. The mandate Obamanable got in 2008 would have not been renewed if it had been empowered to reveal what happens when we turn loose a multicultie Greenhead poverty pimp.No more then a president who made a lot of promises and did not keep any of them and still got reelected.
I wish someone would show the results of getting rid of Winner Take All and assigning percentages of a state's electoral vote according to the percentages won of the popular vote in that state. So, in 2000, Bush would have gotten 14.5 electoral votes from Florida, Gore 14.4, and Nader .1.The blue areas are also the most populated, so it's plausible.
Then why did he get re-elected after going to war? A mandate, that's why. :shrug:
Romney actually won many more states but Obama won the big ones with the biggest electoral vote.
You are such a liar Navy.....not only didn't Romney win "Many more states" than Obama.....he didn't even win ANY more states than Obama. Romney won 24.....Obama won 26 + D.C. Why do you always make up "facts" when you are losing the argument?
I don't see how anyone can look at the vote tally and consider it a mandate. Obama seems to be treating it that way though which might get him in trouble.
Then amend the Constitution so that there's one vote per square mile. Good luck with that.
That may be true. But even still, there doesn't look to be enough blue on that map for it to be possible, but I don't know population stats for each county, either, so you may be right.
A fairly silly complaint. If you hadn't noticed, all hints of action of any sort were tossed out the window right around the 2010 midterms.he has a terrible tendency to simply let congress do nothing
Coloring the 2012 Electoral Map by County, Population Density, and Partisan Split
Some guy made a county map. The deeper the color, the more the population. Notice many Republican states are very, very pale. And that several areas are deep blue.
Obama won the popular vote simply because more people voted for him. The idiotic land over people argument posts the county results and doesn't address population. Effectively people like Henrin and Mac are arguing that land, not people are what counts. It's stupid. It was stupid in 2000. Stupid in 2004. Stupid in 2008 and it's stupid now.
I don't think anyone that is HONEST, thinks that land matters more in an election then people.
The more I see, the more I'm convinced conservatives could really care less about people.
So far from what I've seen, from before the election until now, Republicans have been more concerned with businesses, particularly their "rights" (remember, businesses are people too), and now land.
A fairly silly complaint. If you hadn't noticed, all hints of action of any sort were tossed out the window right around the 2010 midterms.
No schiet.I think this election with Obama being reelected along with the Republican House just tells me America doesn't know what the heck is going on. How does a congress with a 9% approval rating have an 80%+ reelection rate? It doesn't make any sense.
Electoral percentages =/= popular opinion percentages.I guess President Obama has at least as much of a mandate as President G W Bush had in 2004.
Bush received 286 Electoral votes and Kerry 251
Obama recived 332 Electoral votes and Romney 206
Way to be purposely obtuse.332/206 is not 51/49.
Quality of opponent doesn't factor?He was RE-elected. That is a validation of his policies. The majority are in favor.
Does his "lame duck" status lessen any leverage he may have gained?No, he did not get a mandate. He received additional leverage.
What do you think?
Does his "lame duck" status lessen any leverage he may have gained?
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