{"id":1349,"date":"2012-11-12T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-11-12T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:44:52","slug":"who-gets-a-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Who gets a mandate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Peter Meuleners, pulled this info together. Posted here with permission. I think his point is clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the real story here is that Obama won, but he\u2019s got no mandate.\u201d &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now that he\u2019s 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.&#8221; &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.&#8221; &#8211; George W. Bush, 2004<\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;When you win, there is &#8230; a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view.&#8221; &#8211; George W. Bush, 2004<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation&#8217;s future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate.&#8221; &#8211; Dick Cheney, 2004<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>And then we look at the voting results:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>% of pop. vote<\/td>\n<td>electoral votes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2000<\/b><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Bush<\/td>\n<td>47.9<\/td>\n<td>271<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gore<\/td>\n<td>48.4<\/td>\n<td>266<\/td>\n<tr><\/table>\n<p><b>2004<\/b><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Bush<\/td>\n<td>50.7<\/td>\n<td>286<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kerry<\/td>\n<td>48.3<\/td>\n<td>251<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2008<\/b><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Obama<\/td>\n<td>52.9<\/td>\n<td>365<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>McCain<\/td>\n<td>45.7<\/td>\n<td>173<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2012<\/b><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Obama<\/td>\n<td>50.6<\/td>\n<td>332<\/td>\n<tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Romney<\/td>\n<td>47.9<\/td>\n<td>206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Or, as David Waldman put it in a tweet this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>Conservatives win &amp; cheer about it = &#8220;mandate.&#8221; Liberals win &amp; cheer about it = &#8220;gloating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Waldman (@KagroX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KagroX\/status\/267988358670741504\" data-datetime=\"2012-11-12T13:52:58+00:00\">November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Peter Meuleners, pulled this info together. Posted here with permission. I think his point is clear. \u201cI think the real story here is that Obama won, but he\u2019s got no mandate.\u201d &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, 2012 &#8220;And now that he\u2019s 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.&#8221; &#8211; Charles Krauthammer, 2004 &#8220;I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.&#8221; &#8211; George W. Bush, 2004 &#8220;When you win, there is &#8230; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=1349\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,51,35],"tags":[49,48,50],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections-2","category-republicans","tag-democrats-2","tag-elections","tag-republicans-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-lL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}