[geeks] Appropriate Ayn Rand comment for the election...

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I would have expected a bigger margin in the results, given the money  
> involved (one raised over $700 Million directly, the other raised  
> about one third as much, including public funds), but then again, the  
> last time someone got north of 62 Million votes was in the 2004  
> election...
> 
> But when that fellow won it wasn't considered a "landslide" or a  
> "mandate" - my how times have changed the threshold for those two  
> terms...

It wasn't a "mandate" by popular vote, IMHO, although he did squeak out
a bare majority rather than a plurality.  On the other hand, that 52% of
the popular vote *did* get him about 70% of the electoral vote.


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