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Did Obama win a mandate with his reelection as president?

Did Obama win a mandate with his reelection?


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Obama did not "kinda" win the election. He won. That indeed is a mandate. If you still dont understand google mandate.

Then Bush had a mandate to do whatever he did during the entire 8 years of his reign, no?
 
What does that mean? Obama won by the rules in place during the election.
Romney actually won many more states but Obama won the big ones with the biggest electoral vote.
 
The electoral college wins the election, I'll give you that. But when talking about a "mandate" we're talking about the will of the people. The will of the people is reflected best by the popular vote. 48 staes in the United States are all or nothing states. That means that in each of those states, a margin of one vote assigns the entirety of electoral votes for that state. Hardly something to beat your chest over.

when you win it by over 100 votes it means that the candidate won the majority of demographically distrubuted electoral votes. This means of course that the candidates appeal to voters was much broader than his opponents.

Any win no matter how large or small is a mandate.

Definition of MANDATE
1: an authoritative command; especially : a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one
2: an authorization to act given to a representative <accepted the mandate of the people>
 
Obama did not "kinda" win the election. He won. That indeed is a mandate. If you still dont understand google mandate.

Reagan won a mandate (49 states) Obama didn't......
 
I dont think that word means what you think it does.
 
100 votes out of 120 million has that kind of impact?

if it tips the balance in the electoral college - you bet.
how many presidents have won the election without a majority of the popular vote? Bush was the last one.
 
You're talking about pretty much everyone who was ever elected. Promise made never equals promise kept.

No more then a president who made a lot of promises and did not keep any of them and still got reelected.
 
if it tips the balance in the electoral college - you bet.
how many presidents have won the election without a majority of the popular vote? Bush was the last one.

Ok, so, you think Bush had a mandate despite not winning the popular vote in his first election? Since, apparently...a mandate is defined by the electoral college?
 
Ok, so, you think Bush had a mandate despite not winning the popular vote in his first election? Since, apparently...a mandate is defined by the electoral college?

of course. he won the election by the constitutional process and winning an election is a mandate.
 
of course. he won the election by the constitutional process and winning an election is a mandate.

Ok, cool. Then you have no issue what-so-ever with the invasion of Iraq, being a mandate of the people and all...

Right?
 
I got my combat arms bonus then went to admin school, so I was a grunt for a minute.
You were infantry weren't you?
 
Ok, cool. Then you have no issue what-so-ever with the invasion of Iraq, being a mandate of the people and all...

Right?

No, I do have an issue, I do not beleive Mr. Bush ran on a platform that said, elect me and I'll invade Iraq. It wasn't until 2002 he started focusing on Iraq and invaded before the 2004 election.

He had no mandate to go to war.
What transpired was that democracy worked and the elected officials made the call in supporting both war initiatives. That is why there are elected representatives of the people, they are empowered to make decisions on the people's behalf when unexpected things come up.
 
The only mandate here is how the American public failed to make ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. To expect anything different for the next two years is ridiculous.
 
Popular vote was 51/49. You know this. The actual votes are more important than the electoral college.

Then Bush lost the 2000 election to Gore and the entire 8 year nightmare was all a dream.
 
What do you think?

I'd say no. But Republicans should disagree with me.

Bush won in 2004 with a smaller margin, smaller EC victory and smaller popular vote (last one largely due to demographic growth) and was declared to have won a mandate. If Bush got a mandate, then Obama should as well. You cannot reasonable argue that in 2004 Bush had one and Obama who has a bigger margin and landslide EC doesn't and not be a ranging partisan hacktard.
 
I think that critisms people had about his first term and winning has made him motivated to keep those promises. Be it immigration reform, winding down the wars, working towards solving budget and deficit issues, and trying his best to keep unemployment down. By all accounts real employment has only gained 200k jobs since he took office and while that's great more needs to be done and his policies and ideas are sure to encourage growth if they are implemented in meaningful ways.
 
I don't see how anyone can look at the vote tally and consider it a mandate. Obama seems to be treating it that way though which might get him in trouble.
 
I think this election with Obama being reelected along with the Republican House just tells me America doesn't know what the heck is going on. How does a congress with a 9% approval rating have an 80%+ reelection rate? It doesn't make any sense.
Gerrymandering

businessweek.com said:
Republicans Can’t Claim Mandate as Democrats Top House Vote
Democrats failed to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives even though they won 1 million more votes than Republicans.
 
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