2012 Election Doesn't Give Obama a Mandate

2012 Election Doesn't Give Obama a Mandate

Well if this is a mandate for anything it's definitely a mandate for higher taxes on the rich.

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 7, 2012

President Barack Obama won re-election tonight without winning as many electoral votes as he did the last time around after facing a serious threat because of his first term agenda. Now beware of people in the mainstream media proclaiming that there's some kind of "mandate" for Barack Obama to run with.

As Ron Fournier points out at the National Journal, President Obama completely sold out the hopes, dreams and...