Bush\'s \"Mandate\"
Bush keeps harping on the point that he's the first president to get more than 50% of the popular vote in 16 years, but what he fails to mention is that both of his election wins had the smallest margin of victory of all elections in the past 28 years (since Ford and Carter's 2% difference in 1976).
So umm.. yeah.. mandate what? All 51% means is that there wasn't a viable third candidate to suck away votes from both parties. The real number is the margin of victory, which as I stated above, is the smallest since before I was born.
-Nate
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