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Yeah, you can pretend that is the reason why your guy lost....which precincts in Baltimore had Obama getting 99%? When you look at past numbers, Obama won Baltimore by the same amount in this election as he did in 2008....my guess, Baltimore is a very liberal city.....next you will try to tell me that Obama got 99% of the vote in precincts in NYC, which would just be shocking for how liberal NYC is.
But if your grasping for straws, you have got four years to figure out why Obama didn't win the presidency, while the rest of us move on with our lives and enjoy four more years of Obama.
I see NO "mandate".
If he had received 60% or more of the popular vote, maybe.
Well shoot, if we'd just known he needed 60%, we'd have printed more fraudulent ballots and given out more voting obamaphones.
Next time, you folks tell us ahead of time, ok? Voter fraud takes planning and time.
edit to add: plus rounding up all those illegals. man. Give us a pass this time and we'll really turn out the vote next time.
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It's something two gay men do. Usually, they go out to eat at a FABULOUS little Swedish restaurant in Boys Town, then hold hands at a Bette Midler retrospective. On the third mandate, they typicallydecide whether they'll violate the Texas sodomy law. Oh, wait... that law was invalidated by Lawrence v. Texas.
Why do you need to cry voter fraud because your guy didn't win. How about people just didn't like Romney or trust him. You can't run as a conservative in the primaries and then run as a moderate in the general election. That raised a lot of red flags of who the real Romney was and how exactly he would run this country. Plus he had the neo cons as his advisers which indicated he would be just another puppet like Bush. Why would we want someone like that in the white house again.
I heard one of the talking heads this morning stating that obama now has a "mandate" from the American people.
"MANDATE"?? since when did a plurality of less than a million popular votes become a "mandate"?
I suppose he also won in a "landslide"...
Yeah, right.
I see NO "mandate".
If he had received 60% or more of the popular vote, maybe.
Well, since it was so difficult to find the answer to this -- five whole minutes on Google -- on another thread, I might as well repost here:
From Salon:
So what would a real mandate look like? [Charles] Krauthammer helpfully explained on Fox News Sunday the weekend after President Bush was reelected in 2004:
I think it was a huge issue that the president was weak in his first term. He had less of the power and strength and capital, as he speaks of, than he does today. And now that he’s been elected with a large majority, or a significant majority, and with a mandate, I think part of that mandate is to get the right judges, by his likes.
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The Republican Party certainly does NOT know how to lose gracefully. Or - do anything else gracefully come to think of it.
