Dell-Joey-Riot

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Originally Posted by joeydb

Me and about 60 million other Romney supporters will stick around and make sure this president gets his attitude adjustment. If he wants to govern and needs any help from us, we have to be made happy too.

So he has some interesting decisions to make. There is no mandate with a 50-50 split in the electorate.

i thought of that comment when i was reading an article on slate about close elections. this tidbit caught my eye, and is a good summation about a lack of a landslide-and why.

oh, and btw, anyone here realize that the kennedy election was a squeaker? he barely beat nixon. just like truman over dewey. forgotten history i guess.


anyway:

But the Gilded Age has at least one lesson to offer about what our repeated run of close elections might mean. Conventional wisdom suggests that close elections reflect a divided electorate: red/blue, liberal/conservative, Republican/Democrat. The Gilded Age suggests that close elections may in fact be a sign that nobody, on either side, is thinking big.