President Elect - 2000

President Elect - 2000

I have heard some discussion in places about whether Bush has a mandate. I went to the above website to determine if there was a mandate history. I learned more than I expected.

Of the last 23 national elections, Republican winners received a majority of the popular vote 14 out of 16 times. Democrat winners received a majority of the popular vote 6 out of 12 elections. If you remove FDR's wins, the Democrats received 2 out of 8 majority of the popular votes.

If the popular vote dictates the mandate (see Democrat arguments in 2000 against a Bush mandate with a "mere" electoral college win), other than the New Deal only LBJ and Carter had Democrat "mandates."

The mandates given are to Republicans: 14 out of 20 majority of the popular vote elections and 14 out of the 16 of those non-New-Deal "mandates."

If the Democrats have a standard for mandates that requires a popular vote win, they rarely get it. If the Republicans need to show it, they have received more than a 5% margin of victory 12 out of 17 times that it has been given since 1896.

Only misinformation and misdirection can show that the American people are anything other than 4 square in favor of the federal policy that Republicans promote.

Take away structural crises of the Depression and the Nixon fallout in 1976, and Democrats numbers would fare far worse.