Thursday, November 04, 2004

Mandate?

What mandate?

Barry Ritholtz offers some reality based perspective...
-Bush got the lowest percentage of electoral votes (54%) of any incumbent running for reelection since Wilson.

-He will have won with the lowest percentage of the popular vote (51%) of any incumbent running for reelection since Truman (2-party race)

-He will have won by the lowest margin of the popular vote (3.5M) of any incumbent running for reelection since Truman (2.1M, and back then only 50M voted).

-He will have won the three states that put him over 270 (OH, NM and IA--assuming the last two go his way) by only 161,989 (not counting the provisional ballots, absentee, etc.).
Your 'capital' is insufficient to purchase my trust, Mr. Bush. I will not be 'reasonable.' I will not be 'cooperative.'

There is no mandate. Give no quarter.

No surrender.

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