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Podesta: Obama Given ‘Real Mandate For Change’
Think Progress —
John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (currently on leave to head the Obama transition), explained this morning on Fox News Sunday that President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory last week constituted a strong endorsement by the American people of a “progressive philosophy” and has given progressives a “real mandate for change.”
Later in the program, however, Reps. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN) argued that last week’s election was not a mandate. Despite the decisive election of Obama and other progressive candidates across the country, Cantor and Pence maintained that Americans were not ...
Poll Suggests That Americans Want GOP To Move Toward Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Since Election Day, the key argument between pundits and politicians on either side of the political divide has been over what point on the political spectrum Obama can, will, and should govern from, with progressives pointing out that the electorate has embraced many of their policy positions as mainstream, and the defeated GOP insisting that America remains a fundamentally "center-right" nation. ThinkProgress has a nice compilation video of how this argument played out on Fox News Sunday this morning, with John Podesta explaining that the electorate had rendered a mandate for "real change" and "progressive philosophy," and Republican Congressmen Mike ...
Poll Suggests That Americans Want GOP To Move Toward Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Since Election Day, the key argument between pundits and politicians on either side of the political divide has been over what point on the political spectrum Obama can, will, and should govern from, with progressives pointing out that the electorate has embraced many of their policy positions as mainstream, and the defeated GOP insisting that America remains a fundamentally "center-right" nation. ThinkProgress has a nice compilation video of how this argument played out on Fox News Sunday this morning, with John Podesta explaining that the electorate had rendered a mandate for "real change" and "progressive philosophy," and Republican Congressmen Mike ...
Podesta: Obama Given ?Real Mandate For Change?
The Hollywood Liberal —
Podesta: Obama Given ?Real Mandate For Change? John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (currently on leave to head the Obama transition), explained this morning on Fox News Sunday that President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory last week constituted a strong endorsement by the American people of a “progressive philosophy” and has given progressives a “real mandate for change.” Later in […] John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (currently on leave to head the Obama transition), explained this morning on Fox News Sunday that President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory last week constituted a strong endorsement by ...
