Politico: Obama will have no mandate because he will lose white men!

[Landslide Lyndon]

I think we've just uncovered krazey's identity.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A01BF198-18DC-4E9A-9686-C29F615E0AF3

If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That’s what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it’s possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000.

A broad mandate this is not.

[Lief 🗽]

Wow. This country's racism never ceases to amaze.

[Lincoln Republican]

First of all, he said this would not be a broad mandate, he did not say he would have no mandate, as your title states.

That being said, simply by virtue of winning the electoral college vote, a Presidential candidate would have a mandate.

[wildfood]

The quote is, "this is not a broad mandate", not "no mandate".

Also, by the same logic, if Romney wins on the backs of white men he wouldn't have a "broad mandate" either.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Obama will not have a mandate because he hasn't laid out a second-term agenda.  
Plus, the idea of a mandate without a large majority of the vote is silly anyway.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

As 2004 showed us, Obama will have a mandate if he wins the popular vote by 2.46%.

[Lincoln Republican]

However you wish to define mandate, the winner has all the powers of the Presidency, whether he wins very narrowly, or by a massive margin.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Excellent news!  America's whites are rising up against the liberal war on their values and interests.

Mitt-mentum marches on.

[Lief 🗽]

However you wish to define mandate, the winner has all the powers of the Presidency, whether he wins very narrowly, or by a massive margin.

whoa I agree with Winfield

[Ty440]

Didn't  Clinton lose white men also  both times?

[Chaddyr23]

VERY 19th century!

[Indy Texas]

Well who cares about rural white men anyway?

Obama and the Democrats owe them nothing. They've done nothing for this country but stoke race and class resentment at home and serve as cannon fodder for unnecessary wars abroad. They hate minorities, gays, pretty much anyone who isn't like them.

Romney and the Republicans don't owe them anything either. Guys like Romney would just as soon replace them with robots. Or if you can't get a robot, get some little Chinaman to do the same job for a tenth the cost. Cap their SSI benefits. Make it impossible for them to afford to retire and next to impossible for their kids to go to college. They'll still vote for the "working man's" party (even if most of them are laid off).

And they'll go on living in their alternate reality where they think the rest of us are mooching off them and that they're always being cheated and put upon. They always point their pitchforks at the wrong people. Schoolteachers. Black single moms. Do they really think they're to blame for the fact that a high school education doesn't get you into the middle class anymore? They ought to pick on somebody their own size for a change. Like their fellow white men - the ones who laid them off, for example.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Obama is at worse slightly behind with working-class whites outside the South.

[Sbane]

Didn't  Clinton lose white men also  both times?

So did Obama in 2008.

[Ty440]

Well who cares about rural white men anyway?

Obama and the Democrats owe them nothing. They've done nothing for this country but stoke race and class resentment at home and serve as cannon fodder for unnecessary wars abroad. They hate minorities, gays, pretty much anyone who isn't like them.

Romney and the Republicans don't owe them anything either. Guys like Romney would just as soon replace them with robots. Or if you can't get a robot, get some little Chinaman to do the same job for a tenth the cost. Cap their SSI benefits. Make it impossible for them to afford to retire and next to impossible for their kids to go to college. They'll still vote for the "working man's" party (even if most of them are laid off).

And they'll go on living in their alternate reality where they think the rest of us are mooching off them and that they're always being cheated and put upon. They always point their pitchforks at the wrong people. Schoolteachers. Black single moms. Do they really think they're to blame for the fact that a high school education doesn't get you into the middle class anymore? They ought to pick on somebody their own size for a change. Like their fellow white men - the ones who laid them off, for example.

Amen

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hateful idiocy.

And, lo, it is responded to with a different type of hateful idiocy - class bigotry masquerading as enlightened sentiment - in this very thread. I hate this election.

[Yank2133]

Well who cares about rural white men anyway?

Obama and the Democrats owe them nothing. They've done nothing for this country but stoke race and class resentment at home and serve as cannon fodder for unnecessary wars abroad. They hate minorities, gays, pretty much anyone who isn't like them.

Romney and the Republicans don't owe them anything either. Guys like Romney would just as soon replace them with robots. Or if you can't get a robot, get some little Chinaman to do the same job for a tenth the cost. Cap their SSI benefits. Make it impossible for them to afford to retire and next to impossible for their kids to go to college. They'll still vote for the "working man's" party (even if most of them are laid off).

And they'll go on living in their alternate reality where they think the rest of us are mooching off them and that they're always being cheated and put upon. They always point their pitchforks at the wrong people. Schoolteachers. Black single moms. Do they really think they're to blame for the fact that a high school education doesn't get you into the middle class anymore? They ought to pick on somebody their own size for a change. Like their fellow white men - the ones who laid them off, for example.

Well said.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The attitude you "leftists" have towards the misguided class is sickening.

And the white vote hasn't gone Democratic since 1964.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

And the 95% of blacks voting for Obama gets little attention... this is not racism lad

[Indy Texas]

Come on, that post was only like 60% serious. I don't know who I'm more unsettled by - the people who don't understand satire and think I'm a monster or the people who don't understand satire and seem to agree with it wholeheartedly.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Come on, that post was only like 60% serious. I don't know who I'm more unsettled by - the people who don't understand satire and think I'm a monster or the people who don't understand satire and seem to agree with it wholeheartedly.

Ah, yes. 'WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR???!!!!' the first line of defence of approximately one dunderhead in three.

[Yank2133]

And the 95% of blacks voting for Obama gets little attention... this is not racism lad

Blacks have been voting for Democrats since the 60's.

If Hillary was running, she would still get 90%+ of the black vote.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

And the 95% of blacks voting for Obama gets little attention... this is not racism lad

It's not (ipso facto) racist for whites to lean Republican, but it is kind of racist to say that not winning whites means that an officeholder lacks a 'mandate'.

[King]

Who cares about some dying minority that isn't reproducing?

[Sasquatch]

Well who cares about rural white men anyway?

Obama and the Democrats owe them nothing. They've done nothing for this country but stoke race and class resentment at home and serve as cannon fodder for unnecessary wars abroad. They hate minorities, gays, pretty much anyone who isn't like them.

Romney and the Republicans don't owe them anything either. Guys like Romney would just as soon replace them with robots. Or if you can't get a robot, get some little Chinaman to do the same job for a tenth the cost. Cap their SSI benefits. Make it impossible for them to afford to retire and next to impossible for their kids to go to college. They'll still vote for the "working man's" party (even if most of them are laid off).

And they'll go on living in their alternate reality where they think the rest of us are mooching off them and that they're always being cheated and put upon. They always point their pitchforks at the wrong people. Schoolteachers. Black single moms. Do they really think they're to blame for the fact that a high school education doesn't get you into the middle class anymore? They ought to pick on somebody their own size for a change. Like their fellow white men - the ones who laid them off, for example.

This is a beautiful post.