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Romney Gives Up on Florida - Obama Has 332 Electoral Votes

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/08/2012 1:39:27 pm PST

re: #97 Daniel Ballard

Oh I think we both wish he had a popular landslide, which would give him more leverage with the Congress and Senate.

I wish he had a popular landslade because it’d show more people weren’t persuaded by GOP bullshit. As I said, the actual contest is for electoral votes, so that’s what Obama has concentrated on. If it were pure population, their strategy would be different.

Mandates don’t exist. You get elected or you don’t. The powers of the presidency don’t change. Hell, there is gigantic popular support for higher taxes on the wealthy, and nobody seems to take it as a mandate that that’s what the American people want.