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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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Yes, he won a mandate to close Gitmo, end the mideast war(s), cut the federal deficit in half, accomplish immigration reform, lower medical care costs and all of the other wonderful things that he promised in 2008. Was not the reason he needed re-election in 2012, to allow him to "finish the business" that set out to do? Forward as we were promised. Now, how about that open (transparent?), honest and bipartisan government that is not red or blue but for all Americans...
 
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.
 
No. He lost over 9 million votes since his last election. He had a mandate and squandered it....recently, his core voted for status quo.

We are profoundly divided as a people. 51/49 is hardly mandate. :shrug:
 
I guess President Obama has at least as much of a mandate as President G W Bush had in 2004.

Bush received 286 Electoral votes and Kerry 251
Obama recived 332 Electoral votes and Romney 206

From this article:

Following President George W. Bush's victory over Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, conservative media rushed to declare that the election was a decisive mandate for Bush's agenda, and mainstream media outlets have followed their lead.

Their pronouncements echo Vice President Dick Cheney's November 3 claim that "President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation's future and the nation responded by giving him a mandate." But such pronouncements neglect important facts that suggest Bush's narrow victory is far from a decisive endorsement of his agenda:

Media echoed conservative claim on Bush "mandate" | Research | Media Matters for America
 
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If Romney had won with the same numbers as Obama, Republicans would ignore the popular vote all together and just keep chanting about how they beat Democrats by over 100 electoral college votes. However Obama won, so it's convenient for them to ignore the system we actually use and embrace the one they cared little for in 2000. Hey, it's simple, any way you cut it Obama won. Get the **** over it.
 
That settles it. Obama has a mandate.
 
And he still won.

So did a republicant majority in the house (again). 30 states have republicant governors too. Squeaking by (51%/49%?) in a race between the devil we know (big gov't demorat) and the devil we don't know (big gov't republicant) is hardly a mandate to let Obama be king, especially considering that he got more of the popular vote last time.
 
That settles it. Obama has a mandate.

Yeah, a mandate to run us off the cliff.

I'm always amazed that you are so enamored with a person that his own inconvenient words (one term proposition) are overlooked...
 
A win is a win. Sore Loser.

I'm not sore. I wish it had gone another way, but don't make it out to be a Reaganesque victory...it was not.
 
Ok, I was pretty much just clowning around anyway, hard to be funny on the internets. You did call me fanboy.
I'm not sore. I wish it had gone another way, but don't make it out to be a Reaganesque victory...it was not.
 
Ok, I was pretty much just clowning around anyway, hard to be funny on the internets. You did call me fanboy.

Right, you're a witty guy. Dems lost 9mil votes since last election, GOP lost 1mil. Let's hope for your sake it's not a trend.
 
Ok fine. A win is a win. Get over it.
Right, you're a witty guy. Dems lost 9mil votes since last election, GOP lost 1mil. Let's hope for your sake it's not a trend.
 
Popular vote was 51/49. You know this. The actual votes are more important than the electoral college.

no, no its not.

the electoral college vote is what matters. Doesn't matter if a candidate gets 5% more in the popular vote, if he doesn't win enough electoral college votes, he ain't the president.

nothing like trying to change the actual constitution on the fly to ease the pain of losing.
 
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.

No more then a president who made a lot of promises and did not keep any of them and still got reelected.
 
no, no its not.

the electoral college vote is what matters. Doesn't matter if a candidate gets 5% more in the popular vote, if he doesn't win enough electoral college votes, he ain't the president.

nothing like trying to change the actual constitution on the fly to ease the pain of losing.

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.
 
Obama did not "kinda" win the election. He won. That indeed is a mandate. If you still dont understand google mandate.
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.
 
Romney actually won many more states but Obama won the big ones with the biggest electoral vote.
 
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