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deanesmay.com - 11/7/2008
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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 from the people than any President in recent ...

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suntimes.com - 11/5/2008
No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Robert Novak
— suntimes.com — NO REALIGNMENT | No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress WASHINGTON -- The national election Tuesday was not only historic for the election of the first African-American president in the nation's history but also for how little the avalanche of ... (more) No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress :: CHICAGO ...

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graphics8.nytimes.com - 11/6/2008
Greg Saunders: Mandate for Change
— graphics8.nytimes.com — Greg Saunders: Mandate for Change (more) Greg Saunders: Mandate for Change

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The Glittering Eye — ... are very disappointed. I’m seeing all sorts of doom and gloom from those quarters. However, they’re not the only ones who may be in for disappointments. Col. Pat Lang predicts that the following groups (in order) will be disappointed with an Obama Administration: The far Left. (Binh {corrected}, etc.) Many Black Americans Arabs and Muslims Characters like Chris Matthews. Aziz Poonawalla seconds Col. Lang’s first group: However something that the ...

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