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Liberals are saying they now have a mandate. All I see is marginalizing of half of the people in the USA. (the people who are picking up the check) Good luck with that.
Lukewarm. That's the feeling I get from the election numbers.
Turnout was apparently down, at least as a percentage of eligible voters. The president was re-elected by a reduced margin. The challenger didn't inspire the turnout surge he needed.
Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama didn't. He won 53 percent to 46 percent in 2008. His numbers as I write are 50 percent to 48 percent over Mitt Romney. That could go up to 51 percent to 48 percent when California finishes its count, which took five weeks in 2008.
Obama owes most...
where there are millions of parasites living on the public teat
His larger problem is that there is no honeymoon this time and he has no unspent political capitol as well as no nagcy piglosi to march in lockstep with his agenda
the only unanswered question as this point is who comrade hussein will blamed for his ongoing failures