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usnews.com - 11/6/2008
Barack Obama's Victory Was Not a Mandate for Liberalism - Sam Dealey (usnews.com)
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So how should Democrats interpret last night's victories? Not as the broad mandate for liberalism that many of them would hope it to be. Chiefly, Barack Obama ran most effectively as a moderate Republican. While he had plenty of big-money, liberal proposals (such as expanding healthcare), the ...

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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/5/2008
Mandate
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — A magnificent victory for Barack Obama. And bear in mind that the campaign, in its final stages, was really about different philosophies of governing. This wasn't like the 2004 campaign, which was essentially fought over fake issues - Bush running on ... (more) Mandate

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sfgate.com - 11/6/2008
Debate opens on Obama's mandate
— sfgate.com — It is "not a mandate for any political party or any ideology," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., "but a mandate to get over those things that divide us and focus on getting things done." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, ... (more) Debate opens on Obama's mandate

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/30/2008
Mandate for What?
— talkingpointsmemo.com — I want to throw this open for reader discussion, but up front let me say that talk of political mandates is one of those DC parlor games that often doesn't mean very much. We'll probably be referring to the 1990s as the Bill Clinton era for a long ... (more) Mandate for What?

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skippy the bush kangaroo — to those conservatives and other hardly-ever-right wing pundits who are denying that obama got a mandate last night: modern civility, our own easy-going nature, the original mission statement of inclusiveness of the progressive movement, the way our mother raised us, not to mention fcc regulations prevent us from saying to you -- just shut the f&ck; up!!! you screwed the country for the last 8 years w/your bait&switch; approach to government, while you fooled the ignorant into voting you into power so you could loot the institutions that kept this economy ...

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Daily Kos — ... Sam Dealey: Let me be the gazillionth conservative to warn liberals: if you turn out to be the cartoon bogeyman I've described you as all this time, woe on you. ...

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