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

To: Wayners who wrote (657631)	11/4/2004 11:57:55 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

They are clinging to any thread of hope that the public has not totally rebukes them. Of course Bush has been given a huge mandate. He must use the power that his mandate has granted him.

To: Wayners who wrote (657631)	11/5/2004 12:06:38 AM
From: E	Respond to of 769670

If Dems can't stop legislation or nominees in the Senate, exactly how is that not a mandate? The implication with which some invest the word 'mandate' is that the election results reflected some general or overwhelming "will of the people" for Bush to carry out his own RW political or social agenda. But as long as it is understood that what Bush's "mandate" consists of is "Dems can't stop legislation or nominees in the Senate," then we agree. That's what Bush's "mandate" is. After all... He won by the narrowest victory of any sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. By percentage, his victory was the narrowest for any wartime incumbent president in U.S. history. And a Gallup poll conducted just after the election found that 63 percent of voters would prefer to see Bush pursue policies that "both parties support" compared to only 30 percent who want Bush to "advance the Republican Party's agenda."