Mike, I've had my television and radio on all morning, so I've heard all this bullshit before ... your numbers are absolutely meaningless.
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Bush is first President to get majority of popular votes since 1988..
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That is grasping at straws. Bush won by a majority. So the fuck what. There was no effective third party in the race this time. Clinton DID get more votes than his other TWO opponents in both of his elections, something it took Bush two tries to do.
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Bush got more total votes then Reagan got in his landslide
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Like you said, obviously there are more people/voters now. Andrew Jackson got more votes than Thomas Jefferson. William McKinnley (probably) got more votes than U. S. Grant. Herbert Hoover got more votes than Woodrow Wilson. Lyndon Johnson got more votes than Franklin Roosevelt.
Whoopty-fucking-doo.
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Republican's added to their majority in Senate and House.
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Gains in the house were marginal. It remains to be seen whether the gains in the Senate will amount to much. Most of the southern Democrats who lost were the very same people the Republicans would appeal to to get the 60 they need to close debate on a topic. A couple of the Republicans elected are very likely to end up labeled R.I.N.O. before we get too far into the next Congress.
Because of the narrow majorities the Republicans have, particularly in the Senate, an awful lot is going to depend on party discipline. In spite of his "mandate", Bush has got pretty much the same problems he had before the election, if not more.