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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (75309)	11/15/2000 10:07:44 AM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Maybe. I think Kennedy had a mandate and he was well backed in the Cuban Missile Crises. Perhaps it's how we look at "mandate". When Clinton gave his State of the Union addresses, he promised billions in new programs but very little of that ever was enacted. Reagan wanted line item veto and won in a landslide in '84, that's a mandate by both our definitions, yet Reagan never got "his" desired line item veto. The house and senate are not going let any President have Carte Blanche over them regardless of party affiliation. After all, a democratic house didn't buy the Clinton national healthcare plan. Perhaps we can all rest easy that neither candidate gets ALL the keys to the candy shop, no matter how much they win by, or how they've won. Jim