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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: JBTFD who wrote (146101)11/6/2008 7:46:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
I think in a sense any win is a mandate. But in important senses it isn't.

That's one of the problems with such an imprecise word. (Not that imprecise in terms of its formal definition, but imprecise in terms of what it means politically)

But Obama did receive

"an authorization to act given to a representative"
merriam-webster.com

by winning a majority of the electoral votes.