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Brutus
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« on: November 07, 2004, 04:51:19 PM »
What's with all the 'Bush Mandate' spin?  Since when is 51% considered a mandate?  For those who think that the 3.5 million popular vote margin was a grand display of popular broad-based support, consider this regional statistic:

Bush won the South* by 5 million votes.
Kerry won the remaining 39 states (and DC) by 1.5 million.

It certainly is a mandate from the Bible Belt.

*South defined as 11 states that made up Confederacy.
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2004, 05:04:16 PM »
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Ok then, I have a question

At was % would you considered a mandate then?
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I don't have a specific percentage to define it, but Reagan in '84, Nixon in '72, and Johnson in '64 are good examples.
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