{"id":3870,"date":"2012-11-08T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2012-11-08T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:04:51","slug":"schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"

The election is finally over, save the crying.  Speaking of which, please join me for a little bit of schadenfreude at the expense of Charles Krauthammer, Fox News contributor and columnist.  A little context, the other night, as the internet went all abuzz with an imminent Obama victory, many turned to Fox News to watch the slow motion realization that their alternative reality was just that, alternative.  I happened to catch an embittered Charles Krauthammer utter the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If he manages to win the popular vote, it will be very small, if there’s any. And even in the electoral, I think it will be a very small majority. Particularly if Virginia and Florida will go to Romney. So this is not a mandate in the number, or in the way that he campaigned. He did not campaign on any ideas. Anything large. Anything important. He didn’t address entitlements of tackle anything like that. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Via Salon<\/a> (via DailyKos<\/a>), here's Krauthammer in 2004:<\/p>\n

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I think it was a huge issue that the president was weak in his first term. He had less of the power and strength and capital, as he speaks of, than he does today. And now that he’s been elected with a large majority<\/em>, or a significant majority, and with a mandate<\/u>, I think part of that mandate is to get the right judges, by his likes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What where the election results in 2004 versus 2012?  Following directly from above. <\/p>\n

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Bush won with 286 electoral votes to John Kerry’s 252, and with a 2.4 percent margin in the popular vote. Obama currently has 303 electoral votes to Romney’s 206, and he’s likely to add to that the 29 votes from Florida, which hasn’t been called yet, for a grand total of 332. It’s to early to tell on the popular vote, but it will be between 2 and 3 percent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don't know what "mandate" means, by the way.  But if Bush had a mandate in 2000 (as some said–I'll find the quotes later), and a real mandate in 2004, then Obama has a mandate now. <\/div>\n
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Like I say, I'm glad the election is over, but I'm enjoying the crying. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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