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Monday, November 08, 2004


MANDATES: THEN AND NOW



Then (1992): Time magazine's cover declares Bill Clinton's forty-three percent of the vote a "Mandate for Change".

Now (2004): The media struggles to convince us that George W. Bush's nearly four million vote margin of victory is no mandate.

In other words, a clear majority, fifty one percent, counts for less than a minority, forty-three percent.

Must be some more of that "fuzzy math."