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Originally Posted by kane
no it wasn't
they won the whitehouse by about 3 million votes.
Clinton beat dole by 6million ( to be fair perot got about 8million that year though)
clinton beat bush sr by about 5 million ( again perot was involved and got about 19 million that year )
bush beat dukakis by 7million
reagan beat mondale by 17million.
reagan beat carter by 8 million ( anderson ran that year and got 5 million votes as an independent )
Eisenhower beat Stevenson by 9million
so bushes win over kerry isn't even near the top in margin of victory.
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If you were really wanting to be fair you would have to admit that conservatives got a lot more votes than Clinton did. Clinton didn't get a majority.
So, comparatively, President Bush has a tremendous mandate.
I guess we would have to look back 30 years to find the presidental election when democrats recieved the majority of the American Votes.