As far as Barack Obama goes and if he has a mandate, I’m going to have to say yes he does? Just looking at the electoral map there have been some major changes in this election compared to previous elections. There are states that haven’t voted democrat in decades that have recently voted in the past election in favor of Obama.
To also prove that he has a mandate just look at the numbers from the election. Obama won with 53% of the votes. That is a majority. Not to mention that he also kicked McCain’s but with the 364 electoral votes compared to McCain’s 163 votes.
Looking at now and whether or not Obama has a mandate I’m still going to have to say yes he does. It seems that more and more of Obama’s policies are being considered while some have already been put into action. For our country this means that the mandate for Obama will push us to the left and make policies less conservative.
The definition of an electoral mandate has to deal with a command on a given issue by the electorate. This is why I feel that Obama had a mandate and still does. He is continuing to work to get his policies pushed through as well as using bi-partisanship to get more support for these policies.
Do you think, however, that America's typically conservative stance on issues may hinder some of Obama's agenda?
ReplyDeleteYes, I do feel that conservative views of our country will always hinder liberal issues, but as for Obama I feel that he can get his policies passded, but only after he revises them. I feel that he will have to end up making them more conservative than he would want them to be for them to be acceptable to Republicans and to get passsed by members of his administration.
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