ourfuture.org - 10/26/2008
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President Bush joins John McCain's efforts to create a New Deal mandate for Barack Obama, if Obama wins: Bush touts free market as solution to economy’s woes By Jeffrey Young The solution to repairing the damaged economy and promoting prosperity is to remain true to the principles of the free ...
ourfuture.org - 10/24/2008
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ourfuture.org —
John McCain is doing what no progressive political
leader has been able to do in at least
a generation, if not more: He's creating a New Deal mandate for the next president, should that next president be Barack Obama. Indeed, in tacking to the hard ...
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John McCain Is Barack Obama's New Deal Mandate-Maker
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 10/20/2008
johnmccain.com - 10/20/2008
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johnmccain.com —
During Barack Obama's recent event in Toledo, Ohio,
"Joe the Plumber" asked a simple question and got
a surprising answer from the Democratic nominee. When he asked why Barack Obama's tax plan was going to punish him for working hard and living the ...
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McCain-Palin 2008
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David Sirota: The Moment Obama Grabbed 100,000 Coloradoans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I'm not 100 percent sure, knowing how hard this will be, that Obama will move into the breach. My heart hopes he will, and my gut tells me its more than likely he will, because Republicans are helping create an even bigger mandate for an Obama presidency than Obama ever wanted. But we will never know if he will unless he gets a chance - a chance which, since early into the Democratic primary, I have believed he deserves (even though I stand by my concerns/objections to some of his specific positions). If he wins, I am sure we will have a president who grasps how tough it will be ...
The Moment Obama Grabbed 100,000 Coloradoans
Open Left - Front Page —
... I'm not 100 percent sure, knowing how hard this will be, that Obama will move into the breach. My heart hopes he will, and my gut tells me its more than likely he will, because Republicans are helping create an even bigger mandate for an Obama presidency than Obama ever wanted. But we will never know if he will unless he gets a chance - a chance which, since early into the Democratic primary, I have believed he deserves (even though I stand by my concerns/objections to some of his specific positions). If he wins, I am sure we will have a president who grasps how tough it will be ...
The Potential Progressive Mandate*
Open Left - Front Page —
... and here) about how McCain is making the election a referendum on Reagan conservatism. And in doing so, he is creating a larger and more expansive economic mandate for a potential President Obama than Obama himself ever aspired to create for himself (though granted, Obama has ...
David Sirota: The Potential Progressive Mandate*
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and here) about the odd situation whereby McCain is creating a larger and more expansive economic mandate for a potential President Obama than Obama himself ever aspired to create for himself. Whether a President Obama would seize that mandate is an open question - one far less important than the more bottom-up question of whether that mandate emboldens the progressive movement to pressure Obama to reach farther than his own more incrementalist impulses may initially lead him to reach. ...
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alarmingnews.com 11/4/2008 — Go John McCain and Sarah Palin! We'll deal with the riots and the madness of your win, we promise....
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deanesmay.com 11/7/2008 — North Carolina makes nine red states flipped to blue. And Texas is on track for 2012 . With the axiom that the popular vote is the best metric for gauging the existence of a mandate, I look at the numbers and conclude that Obama has a clearer mandate ...
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openleft.com 10/18/2008 — It is fair to say that 2008 is shaping up to have the necessary ingredients for a Democratic mandate, but such things are never certain so it would be good to put some thought into what needs to happen for a broad mandate for progressive change.
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/10/2008 — My colleagues and bosses will, of course, have more official things to say on this subject in the morning, but for now look at the issues tab from the Ohio exit polls , that I’ll take as a stand-in for the as-yet-unavailable national numbers:
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