Originally Posted By ecdc Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada told a roaring crowd, "The election's over. It's time for a change. It's time for bipartisanship, it's time for open government, transparency, and it's a time for results." New York Sen. Charles Schumer said, "Will we stand up to the president when we think he is wrong? Yes. But our real mission is to work together and help the American family and make a better America, and we pledge today that we will never lose sight of that, our true mission." Quite a different thing than the Bush "mandate" after he won with 51% of the vote. Democrats certainly seem to be more in touch with what Americans are looking for. They listened to the exit polls.
Originally Posted By ecdc Sorry - here's the link: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/09/va.senate/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI CS/11/09/va.senate/index.html</a>
Originally Posted By DAR That's fine and I hope they follow through with this. But I hate to belabor this point, they are just as guilty of the partisan bickering as the Republicans are.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<That's fine and I hope they follow through with this. But I hate to belabor this point, they are just as guilty of the partisan bickering as the Republicans are.>> No they aren't.
Originally Posted By DAR <<No they aren't.>> Then obviously you saw none of the races here(of course why would you have.)
Originally Posted By JohnS1 "Quite a different thing than the Bush "mandate" after he won with 51% of the vote." I hope the dems have all the answers and that everything just flows smoothly over the next few years. Honestly. But, I can't help but remember Bill Clinton's statements about his own mandate a few years back - when he received 48% of the vote.
Originally Posted By jonvn And it doesn't matter. Once they have won, they have won. Whining that it was only x% is of no use.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<And it doesn't matter. Once they have won, they have won. Whining that it was only x% is of no use.>> Exactly. Reagan beat Carter in 1980 with only 50.7% of the popular vote. So what??
