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So today in my Presidential Leadership class we were talking about mandates. As I sat there listening to a definition, which was fairly loose, I found myself thinking what a load of BS this is. How can a president say his election was mandated by the U.S. people when he won by under 6ish percent if he was even lucky enough to get over 50%.
So I was wondering what everyone else thought of the idea of mandates. Do you buy into them? Do you agree with them? What do you think the criteria for a presidential mandate should be?
If you want a brief description of what a mandate is here is a wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)
So I was wondering what everyone else thought of the idea of mandates. Do you buy into them? Do you agree with them? What do you think the criteria for a presidential mandate should be?
If you want a brief description of what a mandate is here is a wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)