The reason Bush can claim a mandate is fairly simple: his is the only coherent, and wide-ranging "worldview" which is being articulated in this campaign. Everything else is a reaction to and a criticism of that worldview. Should Bush win, even by a relatively narrow margin, I think he can claim that it is vindication of his policies...
To which he replied, "I think that's right."
Fast-forward four years: President-Elect Obama earned more votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history, and Putz finds this verdict (yawn) rather underwhelming.
Funny, that.
...That was fast.
[Obama] may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities.
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