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brought to you by the electoral college Dc is number

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one party school in the context of elections What is

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a mandate And hear the potential answer In the months

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following an election politicians arrive in washington with more than

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a few suits and some trinkets to remind them of

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home They've also got a big old mandate on the

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books In the context of elections is a mandate be

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a majority in the electoral college but not the popular

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vote well in u s presidential elections There are two

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different tallies to determine the winner First there's the electoral

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college which is made up of a group of electors

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in each state who cast their votes based on how

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the popular vote turns out nice and straight forward right

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then there's the popular vote which is the grand total

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of all the votes cast by civilians There have been

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a couple of cases in american history where presidents won

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a majority of the electoral college but not the popular

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vote But the half and half decision doesn't quite signify

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that kind of unified confidence A mandate would suggest there

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could a mandate b c a majority in the popular

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vote Winning the popular vote would definitely pump up our

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confidence like arnold But we need something that's got a

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little more walk than talk so we can cut out

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see what a mandate referred to d the election of

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the same party to the presidency and a majority in

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congress Well having the same party in the white house

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and congress certainly makes it easier to an act of

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political agenda But a mandate refers more to the agenda

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itself Not the electing we did during the election What

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about e A preelection poll favoring a candidate While we'd

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love to win a popularity contest win means nothing till

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we make it through election day and face the cold

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hard democratic truth but small wins right Well if we

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can edge out e that means in the context of

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elections a mandate is a a public endorsement of a

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candidate's policy platform A mandate from voters means they not

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only sapo poured us is a candidate They also support

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the policies we ran on For example if we run

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on a platform supporting increased government transparency and end up

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getting elected we can point to our victory as evidence

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of the public's desire to see cem change So option

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is the correct answer Another example I say we run

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on a platform supporting increased funding for water parks and

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end up getting elected way Better believe the public wants 00:02:25.273 --> [endTime] to slide down a slippery slope

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