Cenk Uygur
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Obama's Mandate - What Will Happen in Term 2?
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November 8, 2012
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5:15Now Playing"No sooner had the election been called for incumbent President Barack Obama than his opponents tried to salvage some vestige of victory by claiming that the President would not enjoy a governing mandate (calls for revolution notwithstanding). But even before a single vote was cast, the mainstream media telegraphed a similar narrative, communicated most tellingly by Politico's Jim VanDeHei and Mike Allen, who predicted weakness from the President's lack of white power at the polls. Regardless of the President's final margin of victory, though, it was achieved in a country that's moving in his direction, and not going back.
When all the votes are counted, President Obama will have won a resounding electoral victory, and a somewhat narrower popular vote win. The accomplishment is dimmed by the fact that he achieved this against what everyone agrees was a weak opponent, but the President's greatest foe in this election was always a committed and voluble opposition. A quick glance at Tuesday night's exit polls shows exactly what that opposition looked like; the President didn't win a single category of white voters."*
Does Obama have a mandate, or do outlets like Fox News have a point? Will we see a leftist, progressive, or moderate surge in Obama's second term? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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