Not a postmortem, and not a mandate
This blog has been out of commission for so long for a number of reasons, a lot of which are personal.
Eventually, I'll get around to sports in Boston and other happier things.
But right now, I'm just saddened.
What does it mean when people who have misled and mismanaged this country from the day they took office are not only re-elected, but re-elected with even larger margins and in even larger numbers?
What does it mean when people are willing to vote for a party that doesn't have their best interests in mind, and is essentially willing to let themselves get screwed in the process?
What does it mean when the people who vote in large numbers for the party that stands for a smaller federal government are the very people who have the ~most~ to lose by a shrinking government?
What does it mean when the Vice-President claims that a margin of much less than 5% is a "mandate" and a "broad victory?"
It means a lot. I will get back to this post as soon as I can, though Blogger has (as many of you know) been very busy today.
posted by Samer @ 8:36 PM
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1 Comments:
It can mean that people are stupid or deceived. It can also mean that what people consider to be their best interests is not what you consider to be their best interests. It could mean that more people are ideologues willing to vote out of other than personal interest.
Was it a mandate? About as much of a mandate as if Kerry had won the election by the same margin and all the close Senate races had broken the Democrats' way and there was a pick-up of a few seats in the House would have been a mandate on Iraq.
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