Originally Posted By: Todd
Originally Posted By: Jerry Garcia
When Obama won the 2008 election by 7% it was considered by many on the left as a mandate by the people. Obamacare has almost the exact % against the current proposal, wouldn't that be a mandate by the American people?


Just an aside to the very first post in this thread...

A little civics primer for those of you who seem to have either slept through Civics in high school, or didn't make it that far in school...we live in a representative republic, and our President is elected by the electoral college, not by popular vote. I'm sure some of you have conveniently forgotten this, perhaps on purpose, especially when Gore beat Bush on the popular vote and still didn't become President.

Obama/Biden actually won 68% of the electoral college (365 votes) compared to 32% of the electoral college for McCain/Palin (173 votes)...meaning that Obama didn't win by 7%, he actually won byt 36%, more than doubling McCain's vote.

Class dismissed.

Fish on...

Todd



Sometimes you can be such an ass Todd. By your line of thinking Obama won Washington by 100%. I was thinking back to election night with the talking heads on TV saying the election was a mandate. Some of us older folk actually went to school when you were expected to learn and were certainly taught the right stuff in government class. I believe that the popular vote is more important as to the direction of the people than the electoral college.
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