What exactly is a mandate?

[holiday]

What is the true definition? because is it just me or is Bush and the media trying to re-write the definition? I thought the presidential race was close, and Bush is talking and acting as if he won in a landslide.. and there was someone who called into sound off for my paper that said bush won in a landslide.

I know Bush likes to make up his own reality but why do people buy it? Is a mandate a majority vote?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. It's a self inflicted delusion of grandeur... especially in this case. EOM

[thinkingwoman]

2. mandate--the term for a guy

going out with another guy to dinner, and maybe a nice movie.

Perhaps even a nightcap.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Is there a womandate?

[thinkingwoman]

13. of course!

but not in America. We're the only "advanced" nation that grows women unworthy of holding the highest political office in the land. Therefore, we Americans cannot give any woman a WoManDate.

</sarcasm>

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Here is Bush's!

[Sanity Claws]

10. Is this picture from one of the inaugural balls?

She looks like an inaugural belle to me.

[thinkingwoman]

14. that mandate isn't...

wearing enough blue eye shadow to balance that hot pink frock!

The horror!

The in-huMan-ity!

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. I know what it's NOT;

It's not 51%. Never has been, is not now, never will be.

[FogerRox]

Mandate: Take your election democracy stuff and RAM IT UP Your Butt

i'm still king

[uppityperson]

6. "mandate" per dictionary.com

1. An authoritative command or instruction.
2.A command or an authorization given by a political electorate to its representative.

3. a) A commission from the League of Nations authorizing a member nation to administer a territory.
b) A region under such administration.
4. Law.
a) An order issued by a superior court or an official to a lower court.
b) A contract by which one party agrees to perform services for another without payment.

People buy it because they believe in advertising, have learned to not think for themselves.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. Who's Buying it?

Not educated people like the DUers here.

[holiday]

8. Why isn't he being called out on it?

and then the accountability moment comment... it's like he thinks that everyone agrees with him. Im really beginning to think he is delusional.

[Sweet Pea]

9. John F. Kennedy said...

"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. There may be difficulties with the Congress, but a margin of only one vote would still be a mandate”

How do we reconcile THAT?

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Kennedy was *wrong*. Also....

he stole the election. Consider it reconciled.

[DrGonzoLives]

11. FDR in 1936 and 1940

had a mandate. When you win all but Maine and Vermont and control 75 seats in the Senate, it's pretty clear the people are on your side.