Josh Marshall at TPM:
Miscellaneous Thoughts on a Democratic Path Forward
"I’ve been arguing pretty strenuously against getting taken in by these [..] claims of some overwhelming victory or mandate. Trump is now under 50% of the popular vote. "
""you don’t want to go into full baby-and-the-bath-water mode if you lose by a little over a single percentage point. And your coalition is hardly hopeless if you get between 48% and 49% of the vote in a bad year."
/nosanitize
@TheAbbotTrithemius when you win both the senate and congress...and you win the president, i think you have a mandate by the american voters. it doesn't matter by how many votes.
i don't know why all this squabbling over by how much he won. american voters voted red across both houses & the president.
he has all the power given he also owns scotus.
who cares if it was by a million votes or 7 million votes? they won. & can do whatever the fuck they want.
@singlemaltgirl @TheAbbotTrithemius
Repukes ALWAYS say they have a mandate when they win. Now matter by how slight the %. See Dub’s ‘04. And the way our govt. is constructed exacerbates/prolongs this type of bullshit.
@InUnfunky @singlemaltgirl @TheAbbotTrithemius That figure *was* at 1.9%. It’s now at 1.7% and falling.