re: #107 Daniel Ballard

In one post you have no idea what I mean. In the above you dismiss it as unworthy of mention. Huh? in one instance mandates don’t exist and in another they are a truism? Not sure how well those two things square up. Maybe I have misunderstood you.

Yes, you have. I don’t understand what a mandate is because it appears to be a truism, to me.

Big win equals mandate equals landslide, becomes leverage to forward the Presidential agenda through the houses. I’m sorry to see that despite a big EC win, he does not have the big win mandate to beat up the GOP with. Damn it.

He had a landslide in electoral votes. But what you’re not answering is why you think popular support = political action. I’ve pointed out that raising taxes on the highest income has popular support among even GOP voters, and very high support among Americans as a whole.