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GoddessDustyGold -> RE: Chambliss Wins! (12/4/2008 1:05:55 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112
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she has no mandate and he is stronger within the party.
She has the same pseudo-mandate he has--if not moreso. Remember, his margin of victory was far from compelling and even farther from historic.
ROTFLMAO!
Stop trying to pretend it didn't happen. If 1 million votes was a mandate in 04, as you righties claimed, then 6 million votes is an enormous mandate.
Factually more people voted for Barack Obama than have ever voted for any presidential candidate ever. That's not psuedo anything.
Well, I kinda go on the actual numbers. Not in the sense that more people voted for Obama than any other candidate ever received. You could also say that a hell of a lot voted for McCain , if you want to make that argument.
More people may have voted, but that would be understandable. More people are eligible to vote and there was a huge campaign to get out the vote. Given the nature of the candidates and the distress of the country, I am glad more people voted than ever before. Many of them on the Obama side of things were more than proud to proclaim that this was the first time they had ever even bothered to vote.
That said, I will go back to the numbers.
Obama received (unofficially, of course) 68,800,158 popular votes for 52.84% of the total ~ a little more than 1/2
McCain received (unofficially, of course) 59,607,254 popul;ar votes for 45.78% of the total ~ coming up on 1/2?
The difference is barely more than 7%. Maybe you consider that a mandate, but I don't.
I also would not consider a 1,000,000 vote difference to be a mandate. *shrug*
Now if you want to take the electoral college, the difference in the percentage is much more. In this case it definitely seemed to work in Obama's favor. Due to the nature of where he won (heavily populated states with a higher number of electoral votes, that is) Obama received (or will receive on Dec 13th), almost 68% of the electoral votes. Quite a disparity, eh?
Frankly I would think that, sheer numbers of voters aside, as that is a natural result of larger population and more eligible voters than ever before coupled with the fact that more people, many of them staunch democrats, let's not pull any punches here - ran out to vote for the first time ever~ ahem
PE Obama perhaps should have won by a hell of a lot more than a little over 9 million popular votes. Out of over 130,000,000 total votes.
Just My opinion. And please note My tag line. I didn't vote for either of them.
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