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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:05 PM Nov 2012

Politico 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.

If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That’s what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it’s possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000.

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
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Politico senior editors: Only white men give president "mandates" (Original Post) kpete Nov 2012 OP
Cuz winning by a wide margin with only white suckers and their owners would = Broad mandate BeyondGeography Nov 2012 #1
Well... the "mandate" is made-up bullshit anyway. immoderate Nov 2012 #2
Yup tama Nov 2012 #9
These 2 are the orifices from which excrement oozes.... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #3
Wow, their rabid racism, misogyny is out in the open now... Spazito Nov 2012 #4
The writers believe the Canard that this is a center right country. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2012 #5
Well I've read today defacto7 Nov 2012 #6
only "rural uneducated whites" give mandates.............. kooljerk666 Nov 2012 #7
Wow. Just wow. frazzled Nov 2012 #8
Politico's Arithmetic: Minorities = 3/5ths of a person. nt TeamPooka Nov 2012 #10
How about winning the WO-mandate? frazzled Nov 2012 #11
Amazing ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2012 #12
And idiots still link to Politico as being an 'impartial' source. Ikonoklast Nov 2012 #13
 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
2. Well... the "mandate" is made-up bullshit anyway.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:10 PM
Nov 2012

You win -- or you lose. That's all you can do.

Anything else is just crap.

--imm

Spazito

(50,363 posts)
4. Wow, their rabid racism, misogyny is out in the open now...
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:15 PM
Nov 2012


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)
5. The writers believe the Canard that this is a center right country.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:19 PM
Nov 2012
The Senate races offer the perfect cautionary tale to this impulse. Democrats have a good shot in Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, Virginia and Indiana because they have moderate Democratic candidates and incumbents who often see the president — and the party back in Washington — as out of tune with a center-right country.

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)
6. Well I've read today
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:25 PM
Nov 2012

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)
7. only "rural uneducated whites" give mandates..............
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:26 PM
Nov 2012

well educated urban whites are too stupid.................

That does not make sense, therefore must be GOP gospel.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
8. Wow. Just wow.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:36 PM
Nov 2012

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.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
11. How about winning the WO-mandate?
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:04 PM
Nov 2012

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)
12. Amazing
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:11 PM
Nov 2012

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)
13. And idiots still link to Politico as being an 'impartial' source.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 08:21 PM
Nov 2012

They don't realize that Politico was set up to fool those too lazy to see who funds and started them.

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