What Mandate?
I think that it is important to remember that Bush assumes a lot in his smugness. He won the popular vote by as tight a margin as it gets and he only won Ohio by less than a tenth of a percentage of all votes cast. I realize this doesn't change the fact that the Republican agenda is on the tableand that they hold the balance of power but there is a large population out there whose resistance can be mobilized.
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It's true, we are a divided nation, but we're in the minority, even if just by a little bit.
It's interesting. For a long time research told us that Repubs should never have the amount of power they did because they were, in fact, the ideological minority (that is, mainstream liberalism was the majority in the U.S.). But the Repubs have always been extremely well organized, and very effective at running their campaigns, etc. (not to mention the in-fighting among the Left camps).
That logic, however, seems to be shifting. I still don't buy the idea that ultra-conservatism is the majority opinion (I simply CAN'T buy it), but there does seem to be a massive shift to the Right (even considering small things, like how positions that are now called "liberal" used to be "moderate," and so on).
Personally, I've always been more comfortable in the margins. It's where I belong.
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