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Usually in elections it is said the a landslide victory is needed to serve as a mandate for huge, sweeping changes in laws and programs. Trump won in the Electoral College with a good margin but most would not call it a landslide. Hillary Clinton is winning the national popular vote by the largest margin in U.S. history:
Clinton didn't win the popular vote. They haven't finished counting.
Looking at the states with ballots left to count, there's zero chance Trump can close the gap. The only question remaining is how large will Clinton's popular vote margin be.
Looking at the states with ballots left to count, there's zero chance Trump can close the gap. The only question remaining is how large will Clinton's popular vote margin be.
The bigger question is what does she win? What do we as the American public win? Will Oprah tell us all to reach under our chairs to find keys to a new car? The excitement is too much!!
Constitutionally it means nothing. In any case, anything less than 50% is certainly not a popular mandate.
Correct. Trump won by the thinnest of margins: Penn., Mich. and Wisc. were all won by a margin of 1.1% or narrower. The danger for Trump and the Republican majority in the Senate is if they overreach and push for massive changes; those states can easily flip and Trump becomes a one-term wonder. Ryan is floating the idea of a complete Medicare overhaul, that may be too much too far for the slim mandate that Trump has.
Usually in elections it is said the a landslide victory is needed to serve as a mandate for huge, sweeping changes in laws and programs. Trump won in the Electoral College with a good margin but most would not call it a landslide. Hillary Clinton is winning the national popular vote by the largest margin in U.S. history:
Clinton lead = 1,158,809 (source: Cook Political Report)
Honestly, only one vote even matters in answering your question. Donald Trump's vote. It is Donald Trump who must decide whether winning the EC but losing the popular vote will result in him doing less than he had originally intended to or changing things up.
If Trump is okay with diving in and doing everything he promised to do, then it's up to the Republican controlled Congress to either work with him or not to work with him.
Truth be told, we haven't seen a true landslide victory since 1988 when George Bush Sr absolutely crushed Michael Dukakis. Everything since and most everything before Nixon were at least closely contested. I don't think it's logical that you need an overwhelming mandate in order to do your job as President. If it really was a prerequisite, then most US presidents couldn't have ever done much.
Sigh....again and again as mentioned, if an election was based on a popular vote, a different campaign strategy would have been practiced by those running.
She lost and the dems lost control/any hope of control over congress. republicans control it all. That's the mandate. They have lots of control now.
Will the river of denial ever end for the left?
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