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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitico senior editors: Only white men give president "mandates"
Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen decide that only people who look like them can deliver mandates.
A broad mandate this is not.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A01BF198-18DC-4E9A-9686-C29F615E0AF3
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/04/1155529/-Politico-senior-editors-Only-white-men-give-president-mandates
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)You win -- or you lose. That's all you can do.
Anything else is just crap.
--imm
Authoritarian follower bullshit. I vote, usually, but nobody represents me but myself.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Spazito
(50,363 posts)Up until now, their sycophantic crap for Romney has been quite obvious, their abject racism was more 'cloaked'. No longer, it seems.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)When asked a majority actually is some what left, backing universal healthcare, full marriage rights for gays, oppose unnecessary wars, higher taxes for the wealthy, and more control of banks and wall-street.
I do think that the old political leadership is center right.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)that Obama is not losing independents, he's actually gaining.
So maybe that makes the rest of their "analysis" bull shit as well.
I'm talking analysis, not the racist remarks. The racist crap blows it all out of the water.
Speaking of broad mandates, thanks to hate radio there is no broad mandate possible in America period, just two sides with a huge gaping canyon between them.
kooljerk666
(776 posts)well educated urban whites are too stupid.................
That does not make sense, therefore must be GOP gospel.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Only some people count in this country, apparently.
As a white woman married to a white man (okay, okay, we're highly educated whites and Jewish to boot), who both support Obama strongly, I stand proudly with my Hispanic, African American, single girl, educated compatriots. We are the new majority, and we will claim our mandate come hell or high water.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)We're a majority in this country (and we come in all colors). If Obama wins a majority of women, he's defintely got a womandate.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)When you listen to conservatives, they really believe that minorities only have the right to vote on a provisional basis, hence why they have zero qualms with stealing it from them.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)They don't realize that Politico was set up to fool those too lazy to see who funds and started them.