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Cheney said they had a mandate because they won the popular vote.
First of all, the popular vote is TOTALLY MEANINGLESS. I've been saying this since 2000. The popular vote is like the number of hits in a baseball game: it often happens to correlate with the number of runs, but it's completely irrelevant to winning. The popular vote is not only irrelevant, it's an inaccurate measure of the "will of the people". An actual direct vote would look totally different, because turnout would be much higher in the non-swing states, and three of the top five most populous states are strongly Democratic.
Bush got more votes than any other presidential candidate in history. Well, that's just silly—so did Kerry!
Bush got a higher percentage of the popular vote than any presidential candidate since his father in 1988. Well, Kerry got a higher percentage than Bush did last year, and once all the provisional and absentee ballots are counted, he may even eclipse Gore's percentage (48.38%; Kerry is currently at 48.0%, according to the New York Times).
First of all, the popular vote is TOTALLY MEANINGLESS. I've been saying this since 2000. The popular vote is like the number of hits in a baseball game: it often happens to correlate with the number of runs, but it's completely irrelevant to winning. The popular vote is not only irrelevant, it's an inaccurate measure of the "will of the people". An actual direct vote would look totally different, because turnout would be much higher in the non-swing states, and three of the top five most populous states are strongly Democratic.
Bush got more votes than any other presidential candidate in history. Well, that's just silly—so did Kerry!
Bush got a higher percentage of the popular vote than any presidential candidate since his father in 1988. Well, Kerry got a higher percentage than Bush did last year, and once all the provisional and absentee ballots are counted, he may even eclipse Gore's percentage (48.38%; Kerry is currently at 48.0%, according to the New York Times).
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Apparently, the answer is "pretty stupid." Or at least no less stupid than our commander-in-chief.
Currently, I'm wondering why Bush's statements about his plans for the next 4 years sound like half of a meta-game conversion for some sort of politics roleplaying game. "I've built up a lot of political capital during the campaign and now I'm going to spend it. That's what I do." Who speaks like that?
I also wonder where Karl Rove goes from here. Bush is now a lame duck. Surely he ought to be going to his next source of power. I don't think 4 years is enough time to a Constitutional Amendment removing the term limit for President.