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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith 50.7% of the popular vote in 2004, Bush declared he had a "mandate" and "political capital."
Obama's margins are pretty impressive despite the challenges of an economy that is still recovering from a staggering financial crisis, and no thanks to unprecedented obstructionism by the Republican members of the legislature.
2004
Bush 50.7%
Kerry 48.3%
2012 as of 2:30 pm Wednesday
Obama 50.4%
Romney 48.1%
Don't let the right wing try to downplay the scope of this win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/who-won-the-popular-vote-2012_n_2087038.html
tanyev
(42,553 posts)Today he's admitted he was wrong and that Obama won a squeaker with only 300+ electoral votes.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Obama walked it.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)I'm saying that Bush interpreted his reelection as the go-ahead to try to ram through unpopular things like privatizing social security. Obama's margin is about the same and the right wing is stating that he must move to the "middle".
DCKit
(18,541 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)the "liberally-biased media" s*king on his d*ck ...
gollygee
(22,336 posts)and he fully deserved it.
I think he has earned some political capital, but I don't know about a mandate.
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)Plus the numbers provide Pres Obama a slightly larger percentage of the win margin.
And yeah, Bush sure did did proclaim a mandate on his smaller percentage victory.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)susanna
(5,231 posts)WTH?! I pity James Carville.
And Van Jones handled himself with great dignity in the face of her stupid...
gypsylud
(274 posts)Boy he sounded like a jerk. Wait, he was a jerk.