Remember when a mandate was 50.7% of the vote and 286 electoral votes? I wonder what that makes Obama’s victory?
Why is it that the punditocracy never once opined, let alone the morning after two elections that were far less decisive than this one, that George W. Bush had to make sure to govern from the center? The talking heads on CNN just said “center” or “centrist” about nine times in five minutes.
I think we’ve just seen the media theme for the next four years. Anything Barack Obama does that is one iota to the left of George W. Bush will be branded as “governing from the left fringe.”
I guess we’ll just have to settle for historic.