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The Anchoress —
... Sorry, Mr. Reid: Yer man has no mandate; he ran on tax-cuts and other “centrist” ideas. But then, so did Bill Clinton. We know. We know. ...
Novak: 3 Million Vote Margin = Mandate For Bush; 7 Million For Obama = No Mandate
Think Progress —
... Despite resounding progressive victories last night, conservative pundits continue to repeat the myth of a conservative country. Right-wing pundit Robert Novak climbed aboard the bandwagon, writing today that neither the large Democratic gains nor Obama’s sweeping popular and electoral vote margins were proof of a mandate: ...
Brian Normoyle: Bob Novak Just Doesn't Get It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In the Wednesday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, conservative columnist Robert Novak claimed Barack Obama's historical election last night was not "a broad mandate from the public" and the ensuing Democratic wave did little to change the political alignment in congress. Given recent history and the evidence of a shifting tide in American politics, I'm hard pressed to find a more inaccurate assessment of the outcome. ...
sorry, we can't hear you when we're ignoring you
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 ...
When is a mandate not a mandate?
The Moderate Voice —
The answer would appear to be, when the mandate referee is Bob Novak.
The first Democratic Electoral College landslide in decades did not result in a tight race for control of Congress. […]
[Obama] may have opened the door to enactment of the long-deferred liberal agenda, but he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities.
Something smelled bad about this as soon as I read it, but fortunately, Ali Frick at Think Progress has already done the heavy lifting for us. Novak is ...
No mandate?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Robert Novak tries to make an argument that Barack Obama’s victory yesterday did not amount to a mandate, the somewhat illusory concept that Americans debate every four years after the elections conclude. Novak insists that Obama didn’t win enough states and the Democrats didn’t win enough seats in Congress to declare a mandate: When Franklin D. Roosevelt won his second term for president in 1936, the defeated Republican candidate, Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, won only two states, Maine and Vermont, and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress by wide margins. But Obama’s ...
I Thought Bob Novak Had Gone Away?
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
He retired back in August, but for some reason he's back today, spinning like always.
Here's what he said in 2004, when asked if Bush's victory over Kerry was a mandate from voters:
"Of course it is. Its a 3.5 million vote margin."
And here's what he wrote today about Obama's victory over McCain:
"...he neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed large congressional majorities."
Of course, Obama is on pace to win by over 7 million votes. He won more ...
No Mandate & No Scapegoat Needed
blonde sagacity —
... John McCain's loss on Tuesday was a respectable one. Given all that was going against McCain there should have been an Obama and Democratic landslide... And there wasn't. ...
this just in - obama wins!
skippy the bush kangaroo —
barack "to the future" obama (yes, we coined that phrase back on april 13, 2006, you sadly, no! bitches!) has officially won north carolina! that brings his total ev win to 364! suck on that mandate, bob "ow my head" novak!
Brian Normoyle: Bob Novak Just Doesn't Get It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In the Wednesday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, conservative columnist Robert Novak claimed Barack Obama's historical election last night was not "a broad mandate from the public" and the ensuing Democratic wave did little to change the political alignment in congress. Given recent history and the evidence of a shifting tide in American politics, I'm hard pressed to find a more inaccurate assessment of the outcome. ...
The Mandate Manipulation Machine Enters Stage Right
Open Left - Front Page —
... Of course, the motives of different Mandate Manipulators vary. For example, Reid and Dean (and Obama aides) may sympathize with progressive goals, but they may also fear taking the blame for failing to deliver legislative progress from a public that now expects such progress Democrats. By contrast, the DLC and Third Way despise the very goals of economic progressivism. And, of course, movement conservatives like Bob Novak want to crush any progressive legislation in its infancy, willing to claim with a straight face that while Bush's narrow 2004 election victory was a mandate, ...
